On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:07 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:35:23PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 23:03 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 04:16:43PM +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > > I know > > > > I can probably fix it removing each package individually etc, but it'll > > > > take me less time to wipe and reinstall everything. > > > > > > package-cleanup --cleandupes > > > > > > does such removals in one transaction. > > > > I don't want to be too categorical about it, but I deeply distrust that > > option. IIRC, the one time I tried to use it, I found that what it does > > is really *remove* packages, > > Well, yes. That why is there. If you want just an information then Um? I want to remove the duplicate listing from RPM's list of installed packages, I don't actually want the package 'foo' not to be installed any more. > > - that is, if you have both 'foo-1.0-1' and > > 'foo-1.0-2' registered as 'installed' and you run 'package-cleanup > > --cleandupes', what seems to happen is you wind up with 'foo-1.0-2' > > registered as 'installed', but *all the files are gone*, or something > > similarly ridiculous. It was badly broken, anyway. > > Maybe I was just lucky but most of the time --cleandupes worked for me > just fine. Many years ago I have seen something like you describe for > a few minor packages but that is trivial to fix. I did not run into > something like that ever since. > > > I still stick to the old routine for dupe fixing: 'rpm -e --justdb > > --noscripts (older_version)', > > This, for a change, leaves you with an asorted leftover files lying > around. Only if the package's manifest changed between the versions being upgraded 'from' and 'to' in the update that failed. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
