Re: [CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade.

On 10/9/06, itayf@nospammail.net itayf@nospammail.net wrote:

I am running a CentOS 4.3 machine. I wish to move on to 4.4. My problem is that I have some 60 duplicate packages listed below.

Some of those are supposed to be duplicated. If you have an x86_64 architecture, you get both the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of some packages.

See the thread "Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem" in the August 31 - early September time span in the CentOS list archives at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/.

In particular this:

prompt> rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq -d

is the wrong "rpm" incantation to detect the real duplications on x86_64. You need to include %{ARCH} in there somewhere.