[CentOS] Broken upgrade to 5.2 {solved - I hope}

[Karanbir Singh]

Tim Verhoeven wrote:
> The best way to remove duplicate package is using rpm itself and the
> --justdb switch. This will only remote entries inside the RPM database
> and not on the filesytem itself. If you remove the newest version of
> the duplicate packages you can run the yum update again and it will
> reinstall the newer versions and all should be good.


might also want to look at the package-cleanup script included in 
yum-utils....

- KB