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

Me too :)

I noticed it after reboot - missing shared lib. I had to reinstall
e2fsprogs related things in maintenance mode.

Regards,
Michal