On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 02:04 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
Hi,
I was doing some cleanup with rpm -Va and discovered some oddities?
Is: avahi-0.6.22-10.fc9.i386 and avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386 supposed to be able to coexist on the same computer at the same time?
No.
Or is this a matter or a missed obsoletes somewhere since both of those packages seem to be in my rpm DB?
No.
Such duplicated rpmdb entries indicate something having gone utterly wrong when installing a package, either underneath of yum/apt or deeply inside of rpm.
For that matter, are there any packages with the fc7 tag still valid on F9?
They may be valid, they may not be valid. Provided Fedora's current package naming rules, these tags are not of much importance in an installation.
A package using '*.fc9' only means that the packager had been using dist-tags inside of his rpm.specs and that the package has been built after fc8. I.e. a package using "*.fc7" may well be valid/current for FC9.
If not, that would provide me with some low hanging cruft.
Check the "package-cleanup" utility from the yum-utils package.
Unless your rpmdb is corrupt (your symptoms above could be in indication for such breakdown), package-cleanup should enable you to sort out your issues.
Ralf