While yum was updating packages, I ran 'rpm -qa' and it made both
processes hang (left them alone for 30 minutes). After removing the
__db* files and killing the processes, I was left with duplicate
entries, such as
a2ps-4.13b-37
a2ps-4.13b-41
acl-2.2.23-5
acl-2.2.7-5
alchemist-1.0.33-1
alchemist-1.0.34-1
All these packages are reported updated by yum, so I'd like to remove
the old packages from the rpm database---with yum. Is there a
reliable way of doing this? I plan on doing something like:
1) collect the duplicate packages' names with
rpm -qa|sort|awk '{ sub("-[^-]*-[^-]*$", ""); print}'|uniq -d
2) For each package obtained in 1) find the old versions with
rpm -q $package | sort -n| awk '{version[NR]=$0}; END{for(i=1;i<NR;i++) print version[i]}'
and list them in the file old_list.
3) Remove these old packages with
cat old_list | xargs yum -y remove
Mate
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
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