yum leaving multiple versions installed
Thomas J. Baker
tjb at unh.edu
Wed Feb 1 20:34:08 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:23 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
> Noticed today that yum (or yumex, I barely use pirut) has been leaving
> multiple version of software installed, just to be clear this isn't a
> i386 and an x86_64 version of the same package, it is two numerically
> different versions.
>
> This has been affected about 50 packages in total, some lib*, lots of
> gnome*, some xorg and a few *.noarch, so no particular area.
>
> I have had a few yum updates hang (due to the gcj-dbtool hanging?) so
> this might explain it, I've manually tided up the dupes now.
>
> Since I can't say what brought this on and can't repoduce it at the
> moment, I'm not planning to bugzilla it, unless anyone else sees it too,
> or thinks it is significant enough to warrant a bugzilla?
>
>
The included script helps cleaning up. It removes the older duplicate
and rpm verifies the current one. No warranty expressed or implied. It
works for me but I could be living in ignorant bliss...
tjb
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