yum leaving multiple versions installed

[Jeremy Katz]

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 tends to happen if there are scriptlet failures or if you have to
kill the updater (since the update and then remove operations are
somewhat separate).  The SELinux problems of late have been making
scriptlet failures more common :-/

Jeremy