On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:26 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:51:04PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:18 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > > > > > Running 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' would likely help. After > > > > I'd highly recommend being very cautious about that, because what this > > seems to do is actually remove the package. That is, if you have > > foobar-1.1 installed and foobar-1.0 as a 'ghost' in the RPM database, > > after doing package-cleanup --cleandupes , you will have no 'foobar' > > package installed at all. > > Eh? On all occasions I was using that (a number of times after > botched updates for one reason or another) it was always removing > specifically foobar-1.0 and not foobar-1.1. One caveat though. > If some dependencies for foobar-1.1 would be missing it _may_ grab > foobar-1.1 due to removal of dependencies. It asks for a > confirmation if you are not running '-y' and it is indeed a good > idea to pay attention. 'yum-complete-transaction' is likely the best > when it can be applied but it may get confused as well. > > > I comprehensively screwed over a system by > > using --cleandupes once. > > Maybe something was buggy or maybe you did have dependency problems? > No way to tell now. Yeah, unfortunately. I did say it may just have been something anomalous in my case. > > > > What's better to do in the case of having a 'ghost' package in the > > database - it's not really 'installed' in the sense of the files being > > there on the disk, but it's in the database - is 'rpm -e --justdb > > --noscripts' . > > If there are still files which belong to foobar-1.0 and not foobar-1.1 > (/usr/share/doc/foobar-1.0/ is the most obvious example but this is > not the only possibility) then they will be left on your system and > now not claimed by any package. Cleaning that up "by hand" is a long Indeed. That's why I said this is better *in the case of a 'ghost' package*, where the files have actually gone but the package entry remains in the DB. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
