corrupted rpm db listing anyone?

[Jim Cornette]

I was just querying certain rpms that were installed on my system. They 
came back listing several versions of the same rpms.

Kudzu, hal and udev were some of the programs that came back claimimg 
multiple version installations.

kudzu-1.1.81-1
kudzu-1.1.82-1

hal-0.2.97.cvs20040827-2
hal-0.2.97.cvs20040827-3

udev-030-7
udev-030-10

I removed the dupes from the older version, as a normal user 
sucessfully. This removed the extra listing from the db.

As an example:

rpm -q udev
udev-030-7
udev-030-10
[jim at cornette-fc3 ~]$ rpm -e --justdb udev-030-7
error: package udev-030-7 is not installed
[jim at cornette-fc3 ~]$ rpm -q udev
udev-030-10

I didn't know that removing the db entry was possible as a regular user.

I did an rpm --rebuilddb as root afterwards but am curious if this 
problem effects others.


Jim