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

Wed Jun 21 13:40:26 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 08:48 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:40 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > William L. Maltby wrote:
> > > [root at wlmlfs08 ~]# rpm -qa rpm\*
> > > rpm-python-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-build-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
> > > rpmdb-CentOS-4.2-0.20051011.i386
> > > rpmdb-CentOS-4.3-0.20060314.i386
> > > rpm-libs-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-libs-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-build-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-devel-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
> > > rpmforge-release-0.3.4-1.el4.rf.i386
> > > rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
> > > rpm-devel-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
> > > [root at wlmlfs08 ~]#
> > 
> > you obviously have a fubar'd rpmdb and/or a broken update/upgrade that
> > you never fixed!

I think I'm seeing the light here. Combined with what Ralph said, which
was most helpful, I apparently am not supposed to have multiple versions
laying around? Unlike the kernel?

> > 
> > did you just never realise there were duplicates there ?

When you said "duplicates", I was thinking along the lines of two
"4.3.3-11", etc. But I see that is not the case here.

[root at wlmlfs08 ~]# # Save file for diff w/"rpm\*" vers for other thread
[root at wlmlfs08 ~]# rpm -qa|grep rpm|sort >/tmp/tmp2;cat /tmp/tmp2
redhat-rpm-config-8.0.32.1-1.noarch
rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
rpm-build-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
rpm-build-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
rpmdb-CentOS-4.2-0.20051011.i386
rpmdb-CentOS-4.3-0.20060314.i386
rpm-devel-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
rpm-devel-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
rpmforge-release-0.3.4-1.el4.rf.i386
rpm-libs-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
rpm-libs-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386
rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386
rpm-python-4.3.3-13_nonptl.i386

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?

><snip>

TIA
-- 
Bill
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