[CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade.

Thu Oct 12 15:17:53 UTC 2006
Itay Furman <itayf at nospammail.net>

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:17:17 -0700
> From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum, duplicate packages, 4.3->4.4 upgrade.
> 
> On 10/10/06, itayf at nospammail.net <itayf at nospammail.net> wrote:
> >
> > 'yum deplist' on the list of installed packages revealed many
> > cases in which both x86_64 and i[356]86 packages provide the same
> > dependency.
> 
> This information is probably not all that useful.  Obviously the

[snip]

> I think what you're really looking for is the set of packages that
> appear in your previous rpm listing as duplicates, but that DO NOT
> appear in the deplist output at all.  The packages that DO appear in
> the deplist are presumably those that you need to keep.

Good I asked (wiping sweat off forehead :-)
Following your suggestion it looks like all duplicates are 
required...

Sorry for wasting your time, but thanks for the help.

	Itay


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