yum leaving multiple versions installed

[Steve Grubb]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 08:12, Steve Grubb wrote:
> I looked at this a little. In your scripts wherever you have %{NAME} change
> that to %{NAME}-%{ARCH} and then it spots multilib packages.

Here's what I'm using modified from your first piece:

#!/bin/sh
dups="gpg-pubkey|kernel-`uname -m`"
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 > 1 
{ print $2 } ' | egrep -v $dups


But if you are on a multilib system, you can have the above script report 
nothing wrong since yum may not have pulled both i386 & x86_64 libs. In that 
case, you can use the following script to look even deeper for version 
mismatches:

#!/bin/sh
dups="gpg-pubkey"
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq -c | egrep -v $dups | awk '$1 
== 2 { print $2 } '| xargs rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n" | sort 
| uniq -c | awk '$1 == 1 { print $2 }'


-Steve