[CentOS] yum and python. grief and grief. CentOS 4.3

[Will McDonald]

On 21/06/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at 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.