On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 02:04 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: >> Or is this a matter or a missed obsoletes somewhere since both of >> those packages seem to be in my rpm DB? > No. > > Such duplicated rpmdb entries indicate something having gone utterly > wrong when installing a package, either underneath of yum/apt or deeply > inside of rpm. Thanks for the feedback, Ralf. I will try to determine what version of Fedora at what time that old avahi existed to see if it is worth filing a bug. The preupgrade process that I went though didn't end cleanly so that might have been one of the unclean bits. In the end I will 'yum remove avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386' and 'yum reinstall avahi-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386' to replace anything that the removal process might have displosed of. >> For that matter, are there any packages with the fc7 tag still valid >> on F9? > They may be valid, they may not be valid. Provided Fedora's current > package naming rules, these tags are not of much importance in an > installation. > > A package using '*.fc9' only means that the packager had been using > dist-tags inside of his rpm.specs and that the package has been built > after fc8. I.e. a package using "*.fc7" may well be valid/current for > FC9. I thought so. I removed some obvious ones that I knew I didn't need. The others I will investigate. >> If not, that would provide me with some low hanging cruft. > Check the "package-cleanup" utility from the yum-utils package. > > Unless your rpmdb is corrupt (your symptoms above could be in indication > for such breakdown), package-cleanup should enable you to sort out your > issues. rpm -Va reported a great deal of "missing" files so I figured I would manually sort that out before decyphering the other files that it reported. Looking at that package-cleanup app, it looks like 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' might do my above yum remove/reinstall process more thoroughly. Thanks again. /Mike /Mike -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
