On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:17:17 -0700 From: Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade.
On 10/10/06, itayf@nospammail.net itayf@nospammail.net wrote:
'yum deplist' on the list of installed packages revealed many cases in which both x86_64 and i[356]86 packages provide the same dependency.
This information is probably not all that useful. Obviously the
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I think what you're really looking for is the set of packages that appear in your previous rpm listing as duplicates, but that DO NOT appear in the deplist output at all. The packages that DO appear in the deplist are presumably those that you need to keep.
Good I asked (wiping sweat off forehead :-) Following your suggestion it looks like all duplicates are required...
Sorry for wasting your time, but thanks for the help.
Itay
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