rpm questions

[seth vidal]

> Cause for inconsistancy: For me - yum broke (it just hanged haflway
> through).  I was in 'strace' - and didn't know here it was hanging -
> so I used Ctrl-C - which left duplicate entries in rpmdb for some
> packages. Perhaps glibc change somehow messed up rpm underneath? I
> intend to do a fresh install fo FC2test3 on this machine - will see
> how things go..

an rpm update is a two step process internally
first it installs the new package
second it erases the old one 

if it died half way through you'll have some old packages sitting
around.

-sv