On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:36:32PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:20 +0200, Shlomi Levi wrote: > > Hi, > > Somehow I got to the situation that yum reports both > > glibc.i686 2.4-4 > > glibc.i686 2.4-8 > > As installed on my system. How do I remove the specific 2.4-4 from my > > system? > > Not that important to remove the package as to fix yum's repository. > > Broken %post/%postun scripts can lead to such situations, eg it's a > packaging problem typically. 'rpm -e glibc-2.4-4' to fix. If the %post/%postun scripts are busted, then running `rpm -e glibc-2.4-4` will execute them and fail again. You will need to do `rpm --noscripts -e glibc-2.4-4` to make sure that any of the broken scripts aren't run. luke
