[CentOS] Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Thu Aug 31 15:54:11 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 16:43 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote:
> > Will McDonald wrote:
> >
> > >From your second link:
> > Yes, I did get lots of duplicate packages but I've already fixed
> > that. Basically, what I did was to run Adam Stoke's script to
> > remove duplcate packages. It can be located at
> > http://astokes.org/?q=node/49
> >
> > That website is no longer working. Is there still a copy of this
> > script floating around?
>
> Not that I could find unfortunaltey. I've just done...
>
> [root at willspc ~]# for package in `rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{arch}\n" |
> sort | uniq -d | grep -v kernel`;
> do
> rpm -q $package;
> done
>
> Which lists all base duplicated packages (though at least kernel and
> gpg-pubkey are this way by design I believe). Then manually removed
> the older packages. You could THORETICALLY do...
>
> # for duppackage in `rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{arch}\n" | sort | uniq -d
> | grep -Ev '(kernel)|(gpg-pubkey)'`;
> do
> for olderpackage in `rpm -q $duppackage | head -1`
> do
> rpm -e $olderpackage;
> done
> done
>
> WARNING: ^^^^ That's entirely untested and reliant on the ordering
> from rpm output, which looks consistent but I couldn't *swear* to it.
> So be careful! :)
>
> Will.
> _______________________________________________
personally, I would remove the new package and re-update in case
something in cleanup is required for proper operations.
what does everyone think.
Not trying to jinx myself, but I have never had this problem using
centos on hundreds of servers.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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