I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have several duplicate packages on it. For example:
# rpm -qa | grep foofile foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch
The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out.
Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page for rpm could be a bit clearer.
If I can clean this all up, I want to run preupgrade and bring it up to F14 with a minimum of muss & fuss.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:40:37 -0600, Robert wrote:
I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have several duplicate packages on it. For example:
# rpm -qa | grep foofile foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch
The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out.
Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page for rpm could be a bit clearer.
If I can clean this all up, I want to run preupgrade and bring it up to F14 with a minimum of muss & fuss.
Use the package-cleanup command from the yum-utils package.
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 21:50 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:40:37 -0600, Robert wrote:
I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have several duplicate packages on it. For example:
# rpm -qa | grep foofile foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch
The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out.
Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page for rpm could be a bit clearer.
If I can clean this all up, I want to run preupgrade and bring it up to F14 with a minimum of muss & fuss.
Use the package-cleanup command from the yum-utils package.
-- Alternatively, and more work would be to use RPM's options to erase packages only in the RPM package database.
Michael,
From my read of the package-cleanup man page, the functionality I need
is just the opposite of "--cleandupes". I want to remove the newer 'fc14' packages and keep the older 'fc12/fc13' packages. As Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by _that_ much."
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage <at> peaknet.net> writes:
I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have several duplicate packages on it. For example:
# rpm -qa | grep foofile foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch
The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out.
See if you can remove the package, if so then verify the remaining package with "rpm -V foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch". If it doesn't verify, you can "yum reinstall foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch". I had a similar problem recently during an interrupted yum transaction, and was able to remove one of the packages, and the remaining one verified properly.
You might want to also look at yum shell (man yum-shell) which allows you to do several transactions at once as long as dependencies are satisfied at the end.
Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page for rpm could be a bit clearer.
You might need --replacefiles and/or --oldpackage as well (all 3 together are equivalent to --force), but you could just use "yum reinstall <package>" as mentioned above.
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 21:00 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage <at> peaknet.net> writes:
I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have several duplicate packages on it. For example:
# rpm -qa | grep foofile foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch
The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out.
See if you can remove the package, if so then verify the remaining package with "rpm -V foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch". If it doesn't verify, you can "yum reinstall foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch". I had a similar problem recently during an interrupted yum transaction, and was able to remove one of the packages, and the remaining one verified properly.
You might want to also look at yum shell (man yum-shell) which allows you to do several transactions at once as long as dependencies are satisfied at the end.
Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page for rpm could be a bit clearer.
You might need --replacefiles and/or --oldpackage as well (all 3 together are equivalent to --force), but you could just use "yum reinstall <package>" as mentioned above.
Andre,
It will take me umpteen iterations, but this appears to work:
# rpm -e foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch # rpm -V foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch ... a lot of ".......T." output, so: # yum -y reinstall foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch Recheck: # rpm -V foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch ... clean
'yum reinstall' is the step-saver I needed. Thanks very much.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
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