corrupted rpm db listing anyone?

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Sáb, 2004-08-28 às 16:10, Jim Cornette escreveu:

> Kudzu, hal and udev were some of the programs that came back claimimg 
> multiple version installations.

> udev-030-7
> udev-030-10
> I removed the dupes from the older version, as a normal user 
> sucessfully. This removed the extra listing from the db.
> rpm -q udev
> udev-030-7
> udev-030-10
> [jim at cornette-fc3 ~]$ rpm -e --justdb udev-030-7
> error: package udev-030-7 is not installed
> [jim at cornette-fc3 ~]$ rpm -q udev
> udev-030-10
> I didn't know that removing the db entry was possible as a regular user.
> I did an rpm --rebuilddb as root afterwards but am curious if this 
> problem effects others.

This happens here when a "apt-get dist-upgrade" fails, some new packages
are there, but the older ones weren't removed at failure's time. Is not
that uncommon.

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Alexandre Ganso 
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