On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@comcast.net> wrote:

Probably in connection with some version of yumex, I have somehow
gotten both */fc26.i686 and */fc26.x86_64 forms of a dozen or so rpms for
compiz.

This has not been a problem till now. fc26 (and, unless I'm
misremembering, fc25 and fc24 before that) has just ignored the
superfluous ones. But now system-upgrade is choking on the ones for fc27.

The machine is actually .x86_64, as I have now discovered. I
tried adding --allowerasing and --allowerasing --best, but with no
success.

Do I dare do something like "dnf remove compiz"?? (Or perhaps
"dnf remove */compiz/*/.i686 ???)

I had a failed partial upgrade and ended up with a ton of duplicate packages (not quite the same issue, but tangential)

I ended up trying to get a list of the packages I wanted to remove into a text file and then something like:

$ cat <file> | xargs rpm -e --nodeps

Thanks,

Richard