On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:23 +0000, Andy Burns wrote: > Noticed today that yum (or yumex, I barely use pirut) has been leaving > multiple version of software installed, just to be clear this isn't a > i386 and an x86_64 version of the same package, it is two numerically > different versions. > > This has been affected about 50 packages in total, some lib*, lots of > gnome*, some xorg and a few *.noarch, so no particular area. > > I have had a few yum updates hang (due to the gcj-dbtool hanging?) so > this might explain it, I've manually tided up the dupes now. > > Since I can't say what brought this on and can't repoduce it at the > moment, I'm not planning to bugzilla it, unless anyone else sees it too, > or thinks it is significant enough to warrant a bugzilla? > > The included script helps cleaning up. It removes the older duplicate and rpm verifies the current one. No warranty expressed or implied. It works for me but I could be living in ignorant bliss... tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | =======================================================================
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