I found that there are a couple of programs called package-cleanup and
yum-complete-transaction that come in the yum-utils package. I do not
know why this package is not installed along with yum. I have run
"yum update" a couple of times where the program suggested that I run
yum-complete-transaction before I continue with the update. However,
yum-complete-transaction was not on the system.
I will install yum-utils on the RedHat and fedora stations.
package-cleanup --dupes
tells me that the systems do not have any duplicate packages.
I still need to find out why the RedHat system page reports needed
updates on three of the systems and yum can find nothing to update.
On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Marti, Rob wrote:
They're showing stuff installed twice (likely) because they're 64
bit boxes, and they have the 32 and 64 bit version installed.
As to why RHN and your server are not in sync with installed
packages, I don't know.
Rob Marti
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 9:21 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: update problems
Yum and the RedHat systems page disagree on the upgrades needed for
three of our systems. Also what is the best way to clear multiple
installations of the same package on a system.
I have eight RedHat systems. At least four use "yum update" to
update software.
On the four systems using "yum update", I have completed all the
updates available using this command.
However the RedHat web page that shows systems that need updates,
three of the systems still need an update of
glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc-2.5-34 Bug Fix Advisory
RHBA-2009:1202-1
glibc-common-2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc-common-2.5-34 Bug Fix Advisory
RHBA-2009:1202-1
glibc-devel-2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc-devel-2.5-34 Bug Fix Advisory
RHBA-2009:1202-1
glibc-headers-2.5-34.el5_3.1 glibc-headers-2.5-34 Bug Fix Advisory
RHBA-2009:1202-1
nscd-2.5-34.el5_3.1 nscd-2.5-34 Bug Fix Advisory RHBA-2009:1202-1
If I run "yum install glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1", I get Setting up
Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package
glibc-2.5-34.el5_3.1 available.
Running "yum update glibc"
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
The systems are running 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5,
2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen
2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen
All three systems show glibc-2.5-34 and glibc-devel-2.5-34 installed
twice.
rpm -aq | grep glibc
glibc-2.5-34
glibc-devel-2.5-34
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-devel-2.5-34
compat-glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-common-2.5-34
glibc-headers-2.5-34
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-2.5-34
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