On 12/13/2011 06:35 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past. The safest way that I came up with is to simply run "yum reinstall <package>" for each package that has duplicates. This will make sure that none of the newer package's files get removed, while the old one is cleaned up properly. It also installs all necessary dependencies, so you don't need to worry about that.
Right now, I'm running package-cleanup --problems and checking to see if the top item on the list is a dupe. So far, each one is and I nuke the fc14 version. Lather, rise, repeat. One odd thing, though: it keeps listing the fc14 version of rss-glx-xscreensaver as a problem, even after I've nuked it. And, I never use -y so that I can examine what's going to be removed Just In Case...
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