Problems with rpm database - users - Fedora Mailing-Lists

Thursday, 24 February 2005

I just installed Fedora Core 3 x86_64 on a machine and used rpm to get 
atrpms-kickcstart for the x86_64 architecture.

When I run
    apt-get update
it gives me a lot of warnings like
   W:: There are multiple versions of "...."
   To disable warning set:
   RPM::Allow Duplicated-Warning "false"

I did the following command:
   rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | sort | uniq -d | grep -v '^kernel'
It shows 206 duplicate modules in the rpm database.
The duplicates all have the same name and version number. That is, there 
are two versions of qt in the database, both with the same version, etc.

I think that the people who made the distribution I'm using left both 
the i386 and x86_64 versions of all these packages in the system and rpm 
sees both versions.

I tried
   rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches packagename
for each duplicated package, but that causes a lot of problems because 
after about 20 packages, rpm stops working because I had removed a 
package it needs. And there seem to be quite a number of these.

I tried
   apt-get -f update
repeatedly and it seemed to clear up the problems until I entered
   apt-get dist-upgrade
When I tried
   apt-get -f dist-upgrade
repeatedly, it erased all the binaries in /usr/bin

I tried
    rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
    rpmdb --rebuilddb -vv
It rebuilt the database with all the duplicates.

I tried
    rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches --repackage akisaurus
and it created  aiksaurus-1.2.1-2.i386.rpm and 
aiksaurus-1.2.1-2.x86_64.rpm in /var/spool/repackage. Thinking I could 
remove each package one at a time and reinstall it from the repackage 
directory.

When I tried
    rpm -i /var/spool/repackage/aiksaurus-1.2.1-2.x86_64.rpm
It gave me a V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2

I'm running out of ideas to try. Would someone please tell me how to get 
rid of the duplicates from my rpm database?

Thanks,
Carl.