On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:12, mw-list-yum@xxxxxx wrote:
> 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
if this is yum 2.1.X you can specify complete versions on the cli
yum remove foo-1.1-1
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