rpm questions

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:39:51 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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.

Duplicate installs with the same version and release will need
option --allmatches, no?

 


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