On 10/20/05, Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org wrote:
Hi There,
Install Centos 4.1 X86-64 onto an athlon64 box.
unfortunately half way through a yum -y upgrade I press ctrl-c on the wrong window and aborted a couple of the packages in the (large) update.
Now the rpm database things there are multiple packages installed on the same rpm versions,
eg:
rpm -q -a | grep mysql
mod_auth_mysql-2.6.1-2.2 php-mysql-4.3.9-3.6 mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 mysql-devel-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1 mysql-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1 mysql-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-10.RHEL4.1
rpm -e mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 error: "mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1" specifies multiple packages
These are most likely packages of different architecture. one i386, and one x86_64
So I tried a "yum clean all" and tried again but yum fails with a transaction check error with conflicts of rpms onthemselves.
I did a rpm --rebuilddb with no joy, and i deleted the __db files from /var/lib/rpm - still no joy.
REALLY not the right way to fix it.....
I cn't install any rpms now as it says there are conflicts....
I am fresh out of ideas now...
Any help appreciated...
do the following as root (and for your user also) echo "%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}" >> ~/.rpmmacros
then rpm -q mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1, and you will see the different packages. use the full packagename to remove one. should be something like mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1.i386 or mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1.x86_64
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