up2date -p with yum

[Justin Georgeson]

Jason Montleon wrote:
> Justin Georgeson wrote:
>     not sure on this one other than to say there have been a few threads of
> people saying it installs multiple versions of the same software. You might
> look at 'up2date     --configure' for relevant options. Have a look in the
> archives for the recent threads.
> 
> This may have been what happened.  It is impossible to tell now, but what I
> ended up doing in order to resolve the problem was rpm -e mozilla-nspr (same
> for mozilla-nss mozilla and vim-common; i.e. all the affected packages)
> 
> I initially received a message to the effect 'mozilla-nspr refers to
> multiple packages'.  I was a little baffled by that so I ran it again and it
> went like normal.  I then did 'up2date mozilla-nspr' (same for all the
> others with each of these commands as well), and that ended my trouble.

I believe if you rpm -e <package> without the full version string, and 
there are multiple versions installed, it will uninstall the lowest 
version, and complain that there are multiple versions.