Re: rpm questions

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:32:13AM +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> Thank you to all who answered. I have 67 duplicate entries. If there is
> no automatic and safe procedure to correct things now, I think I'll just
> wait for test 3 and reinstall. No reason to risk losing a working
> system.

Start with rpm --rebuilddb if you haven't already. Then check if the duplicates
are exactly the same version. If so the for each one - except critical stuff
like glibc you can do

	rpm -e --nodeps packagename  (repeat if needed)
	rpm --install packagename.rpm
	rpm --verify packagename.