yum leaving multiple versions installed

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:23 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
> Noticed today that yum (or yumex, I barely use pirut) has been leaving 
> multiple version of software installed, just to be clear this isn't a 
> i386 and an x86_64 version of the same package, it is two numerically 
> different versions.
> 
> This has been affected about 50 packages in total, some lib*, lots of 
> gnome*, some xorg and a few *.noarch, so no particular area.
> 
> I have had a few yum updates hang (due to the gcj-dbtool hanging?) so 
> this might explain it, I've manually tided up the dupes now.
> 
> Since I can't say what brought this on and can't repoduce it at the 
> moment, I'm not planning to bugzilla it, unless anyone else sees it too, 
> or thinks it is significant enough to warrant a bugzilla?
> 
> 

The included script helps cleaning up. It removes the older duplicate
and rpm verifies the current one.  No warranty expressed or implied. It
works for me but I could be living in ignorant bliss...

tjb
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