tip: automated way to delete duplicate rpms
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Sun Dec 31 00:11:35 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:57 -0800, oldman wrote:
> This worries me a little bit. If you remove a package aren't you
> likely to remove identically named files from the newer package as
> well?
>
> I ask because I usually do a rpm -e --justdb <pkgname> as I
> once found
> myself without some services after deleting an old package.
I agree its not good to have multiple versions installed.
You could always do a refresh on the packages that remain behind. One
could put a "yumdownloader $pkg rpm --refresh $pkg in a loop for the
list of packages that are left installed.
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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