Re: Duplicate packages after OS upgrade

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 05:04, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I just upgraded my old RH6.1 server to 7.2 and now I've got multiple
> copies of some packages, such as both the old and new Samba. Anybody
> else seen this? Did Anaconda or RPM choke? (Prior to upgrade, I had the
> latest 3.x RPM installed to handle transition packages.)
> 
> I figure I'll have to go back through and find the duplicates and
> manually remove the old packages.

There are a couple of cases I know of where this can happen, notably
(IIRC) samba, apache and one or two other servers.  Cause is a broken
trigger on the old linuxconf package.

Of course, if you had removed linuxconf, then that's not it and there
might be something interesting in /tmp/upgrade.log

Cheers,

Jeremy