FC3 T2 conflicts - duplicate programs

[Harald Hoyer]

Glen Staufer wrote:
> Trying to run 'yum update' and I run into this error:
> 
> udev conflicts: mkinitrd<=0:4.1.11-1
> 
> yum list | grep mkinitrd shows that I have two versions installed,
> 4.1.14-1 and 4.1.11-1.
> 
> So, what's the best way to deal wtih this?  I thought about
> uninstalling mkinitrd and reinstalling it to get the right version.  I
> had a similar problem with tcsh and did a remove/install with 
> apparent success.  There are so many dependencies on mkinitrd that I'm
> afraid I'll break stuff that I need to do a re-installation and then
> I'll really have problems.
> 
> Is there a good way to purge this system of old versions of installed
> programs?  Why does this happen?  This was a fresh install of FC3T2
> done just this weekend which has only seen updates since.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Glenn

just:
# rpm -e  mkinitrd-4.1.11-1
which will not deinstall 4.1.14-1