On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:05 -0400, Luke Macken wrote: > 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. Yup, to be sure you'll need --noscripts. OTOH quite often in these cases it's the upgrade that's broken, not the remove case. And if you need --noscripts it's usually a good idea to look at the scripts to see what was *supposed* to happen on the upgrade and what part of it possibly didn't happen because of the failure. - Panu -
