On 21/06/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:51 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
So I now presume, based on the snippet Ralph provided that the breakage is not *duplicates*, but multiple versions installed at the same time (if we could believe my rpm db)? Is that correct?
i should have been clearer initially, its duplicates as in multiple copies of the same rpm but with different versions. You only want to have 1 version of 1 rpm installed per Arch
OK. Thanks. When I first started CentOS and had almost *zero* yum and rpm background, I had some failures during updates. Learned about clearing the yum cache and headers (IIRC?) from you folks on the list, but had not yet read all the yum and rpm man pages and other docs. So (out of fear or haste intelligence? ;-) never looked into the rpm status. Things were working, I was busy reading/learning and I was "happy".
Now I'll "rpm -qa" it and see what I can find. Must be other stuff. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
You might want to go have a look back though the archives for the cause of these problems.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/062568.html
This will give you a list of duplicated packages...
# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{arch}\n" | sort | uniq -d
Will.