Yum update seems to have stalled

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 19:59, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > I've not touched any of these types yet. I did remove a bunch in the
> > former category. In this second category there are at least 15-20 of
> > these.
>
> A great suggestion was made by someone earlier about the multiple
> versions of same packages showing up. The safest thing to do is to
> rpm -e package --justdb
> the earlier version instead of just rpm -e package. The reason explained
> deals with removing common files between the older and the newer
> version. The newer version probably already updated common files that
> have changed.
>
> Check a few of the packages with the --verify option given to rpm for
> the remaining packages that were not removed to see if they check out
> alright.
>
> rpm -q --verify remaining-package
>
> Jim
>
> PS - Stopping rpm, up2date or yum before they complete do cause this
> multiple version per upgraded packages currently. The database is
> probably in a state where the database entries were never removed. The
> older packages were probably successfully removed already.

This came in a bit too late. However, thanks to you and everyone else who had 
helpful suggestions on this. Looks like all is well, now. I did a yum clean 
all and things seem back to normal. I shall follow the several suggestions 
made about doing major yum updates incrementally, in the future. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA