rhpl update problem and rpmdb problem(s) (was Re: What is the current F14 state?)

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/10/4 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:18 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:44:00PM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> > e2fsprogs-1.41.10-7.fc13.i686 has missing requires of libss.so.2
>> > e2fsprogs-1.41.12-5.fc13.x86_64 is a duplicate with
>> > e2fsprogs-1.41.10-7.fc13.x86_64
>> ....
>> >
>> > Is there any way to remove these warnings? These versions are no
>> > longer in the system AFAICT.
>>
>> Aparently they are; at least as far as rpmdb is concerned.  It looks
>> like that you have quite a number of duplicates which suggests that
>> a "Cleanup" phase was not finished.
>>
>> Running 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' would likely help.  After
>
> I'd highly recommend being very cautious about that, because what this
> seems to do is actually remove the package. That is, if you have
> foobar-1.1 installed and foobar-1.0 as a 'ghost' in the RPM database,
> after doing package-cleanup --cleandupes , you will have no 'foobar'
> package installed at all.

It appears that I still have installed e2fsprogs in correct version
rpm -qf /sbin/e2fsck
e2fsprogs-1.41.12-5.fc14.x86_64

> I comprehensively screwed over a system by
> using --cleandupes once.

Thanks for the warning.

>
> What's better to do in the case of having a 'ghost' package in the
> database - it's not really 'installed' in the sense of the files being
> there on the disk, but it's in the database - is 'rpm -e --justdb
> --noscripts' .

AFAIU this only removes information about certain package version from
rpm database? In that case, this solution can actually be better.

> There may be an equivalent parameter for
> package-cleanup , I'm not sure.
>
> It may be that --cleandupes usually does the right thing and I just got
> unlucky, but I'd be careful with it :)

Once again thanks for the warning.

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Regards,
Michal