Re: Rpm database issue

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:59:09 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:

> > > [giovanni@badpenguin giovanni]$ rpm -qa|grep postfix
> > > the output is:
> > > postfix-2.0.16-2.rh9
> > > postfix-2.0.14-1.rh9
> > > postfix-2.0.15-1.rh9
> > > postfix-2.0.13-2.rh9
> > > but now I have installed only the first one (working fine); no results
> > > by deleting __db00x, rebuilding the rpm database etc...
> > > How can I solve this issue?
> > 
> > There's only one way out:   rpm --erase --allmatches postfix
> > And in case something depends on postfix, add --nodeps.
> > 
> > Then reinstall a single postfix package.
> 
> Only one way!? Well, if postfix is running fine, what I'd do is :
> 
> rpm -e --justdb \
>  postfix-2.0.13-2.rh9 \
>  postfix-2.0.14-1.rh9 \
>  postfix-2.0.15-1.rh9

Well, this assumes that the 2.0.16-2 package was installed last, that
the {pre,post}install scriplets didn't do anything multiple times, and
that none of the packages contains files/directories which are not
part of the other packages. I should have written "there's only one
clean way out".


- -- 
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.

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