[CentOS] Problem after crash during yum update

Thu Dec 20 18:32:46 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Dec 20, 2007 9:47 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote:
> Akemi:
>
> > Follow this forum thread:
> >
> > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?
> > topic_id=10139&forum=27&post_id=32373#forumpost32373
> >
> > The command in there (note #6) may work for you as well.
>
> Excellent, thanks for the pointer.  However, in my case I want to
> clean out the older packages since already I successfully completed
> the "yum update" to 4.6, right?  So it's just a matter of changing
> the "head" to "tail" on that command so it looks like this:
>
>      for file in `rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort |
> uniq -c | grep -v " 1 " | \
>        cut -c 9- | cut -d" " -f1`; do rpm -q --last $file | tail -1 |
> cut -d" " -f1; done | \
>        grep -v kernel | grep -v gpg-pubkey | xargs rpm -e --justdb --
> nodeps
>
> Alfred

Replacing the head with a tail should give you the "oldest" one, yes.

Akemi