fredn1@xxxxxx wrote: Hi Fred, >>I noticed that several packages are now duplicated in the RPM database, >>for example: >> >># rpm -q vixie-cron >>vixie-cron-3.0.1-87 >>vixie-cron-4.1-20_FC3 > > Do the following for each of the duplicated packages > to remove the older version of each: > > rpm -ev vixie-cron-3.0.1-87 Thanks for this advice. I eventually just made a list of the duplicates, and used "rpm -ev" to remove them. I have been experimenting with another package manager on my laptop, called smart[1], which works much like yum, but has some improvements. It downloads repo metadata and packages in parallel, making the process faster, but more interestingly, as it upgrades packages, it removes the old one immediately. Thus, a hung process would not leave the RPM database in such a mess. Perhaps yum could be modified to work like smart, to guard against this kind of problem. [1] http://www.smartpm.org
