can yum remove old packages?

[Philip Moller]

Craig White wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 00:17 +0000, Philip Moller wrote:
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>>Philip Moller wrote:
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>>>sean wrote:
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>>>>Rex Dieter wrote:
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>>>>>sean wrote:
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>>>>>          
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>>>>>>on a yum update,  yum didn't do cleanup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Now I have a lot of duplicate packages, e.g.:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rpm -q libidn-devel
>>>>>>libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
>>>>>>libidn-devel-0.5.15-1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How can I erase all the old packages?
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I know of no easy automatic way to do it, other than manually.  In 
>>>>>this case,
>>>>>rpm -e libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
>>>>>
>>>>>-- Rex
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>That may be a life's work. It was in the middle of a fc3->fc4 
>>>>upgrade. Over 300 packages updated.
>>>>
>>>>Sigh.
>>>>
>>>>sean
>>>>
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>>>well, try (as root) :
>>># yum clean all
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>>>      
>>>
>># man yum
>>
>>CLEAN OPTIONS
>>       The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in clean mode.
>>
>>       yum clean packages
>>              Eliminate  any cached packages from the system.  Note that 
>>packages are
>>              not automatically deleted after they are downloaded.
>>
>>       yum clean headers
>>              Eliminate all of the files which  yum  uses  to  
>>determine  the  remote
>>              availability  of packages. Using this option will force 
>>yum to download
>>              all the headers the next time it is run.
>>
>>       yum clean all
>>              Runs yum clean packages and yum clean headers as above.
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>kindly explain how that is gonna help OP - I can't think of a way that
>running 'yum clean [anything or nothing]' is gonna help OP here.
>
>Perhaps I will learn something
>
>Craig
>
Ok, I misunderstod the problem, so I am very sorry !!!