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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060831/06cd7e96/attachment-0005.sig>