yum leaving multiple versions installed

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Feb 5 19:00:21 UTC 2006


Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> On 05/02/06, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>> # Add any package here that is OK to have duplicates
>> dups="gpg-pubkey|kernel|kernel-devel"
> Also "kernel-smp|kernel-smp-devel" ...
> 
> MEF
> 
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Playing around with the scripts from Steve and Ville let me customize it 
to show the following. I did not see any output for development with the 
addition of just kernel as below. Adding kernel-smp to the exclusions 
would probably be needed if you would use the information.

#!/bin/sh
# This script will search for duplicate package installations and also 
will exclude
#programs which are legitimate duplicate packages.
#
# Enter the rpms that are legitimate multiversion installs in the below 
line.
# These entries will not show on the output from the script.
#
dups="gpg-pubkey|kernel"
echo Starting Duplicate RPM Search.
echo ...
rpm -aq --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v -E 
" *1 "|awk '$1 > 1
{ print $2 } ' | egrep -v $dups
echo Finished With Search.
echo


Jim

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