On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 21:50 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:40:37 -0600, Robert wrote: > > > I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way > > to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have > > several duplicate packages on it. For example: > > > > # rpm -qa | grep foofile > > foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch > > foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch > > > > The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to > > remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the > > fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of > > immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out. > > > > Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply > > "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing > > files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page > > for rpm could be a bit clearer. > > > > If I can clean this all up, I want to run preupgrade and bring it up to > > F14 with a minimum of muss & fuss. > > Use the package-cleanup command from the yum-utils package. > > -- > Alternatively, and more work would be to use RPM's options to erase > packages only in the RPM package database. Michael, >From my read of the package-cleanup man page, the functionality I need is just the opposite of "--cleandupes". I want to remove the newer 'fc14' packages and keep the older 'fc12/fc13' packages. As Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by _that_ much." --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
