Using hint from MA Young - find duplicates

[Jim Cornette]

M A Young wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>Since I was curious as to the extent of duplicate programs installed. I
>>decided to search the redhat site to determine how many programs were
>>multiple installs. After running the script from a posting from MA
>>Young, here is what appeared duplicated. This is an ataached files.
>>
>>The query below shows one example for translation of the attached file.
>>
>>  rpm -q binutils
>>binutils-2.15.91.0.2-4
>>binutils-2.15.91.0.2-8
> 
> 
> Get the more up to date rpm, then try
> rpm -Uvh newer.rpm --replacepkgs --replacefiles
> 
> 	MIchael Young
> 
> 

Thanks! I found that using that script from the Redhat Network archives 
and rpm -e --justdb multiple-older.rpm did the trick removing the "extra 
  entry from the DB.
Since, I seem to be the only one that ended up with the problem, I 
assume it must have to do with something unique to me only.

I only noticed the duplicate package entries because of a posting 
related to udev and kudzu. Both programs displayed duplicates.

Thanks for posting the scripts earlier and it still being in the 
archives. They came in extremely handy to resolve the problem.

Jim

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