On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:20 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Would someone please tell me how's this done?
use the attached script. worked for me.
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#!/usr/bin/python -tt
import sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/share/yum-cli')
import cli
def findDupes(my):
"""takes a yum base object prints out a list of package duplicates.
These typically happen when an update transaction is left half-completed"""
# iterate rpmdb.pkglist
# put each package into name.arch dicts with lists as the po
# look for any keys with a > 1 length list of pos where the name
# of the package is not kernel and/or does not provide a kernel-module
pkgdict = {}
refined = {}
dupes = []
for (n,a,e,v,r) in my.rpmdb.simplePkgList():
if not pkgdict.has_key((n,a)):
pkgdict[(n,a)] = []
pkgdict[(n,a)].append((e,v,r))
for (n,a) in pkgdict.keys():
if len(pkgdict[(n,a)]) > 1:
refined[(n,a)] = pkgdict[(n,a)]
del pkgdict
return refined
def setupOldDupes(my):
"""remove all the older duplicates"""
dupedict = findDupes(my)
removedupes = []
for (n,a) in dupedict.keys():
if n.startswith('kernel'):
continue
if n.startswith('gpg-pubkey'):
continue
(e,v,r) = dupedict[(n,a)][0]
lowpo = my.getInstalledPackageObject((n,a,e,v,r))
for (e,v,r) in dupedict[(n,a)][1:]:
po = my.getInstalledPackageObject((n,a,e,v,r))
if po.EVR < lowpo.EVR:
lowpo = po
removedupes.append(lowpo)
for po in removedupes:
my.remove(po)
return len(removedupes)
def main():
my = cli.YumBaseCli()
my.doGenericSetup()
#something here to set -y or not
num = setupOldDupes(my)
if num < 1:
print 'no dupes to remove'
sys.exit(0)
my.buildTransaction()
my.doTransaction()
sys.exit(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
