can yum remove old packages?

[sean]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> sean wrote:
> 
>> on a yum update,  yum didn't do cleanup.
>>
>> Now I have a lot of duplicate packages, e.g.:
>>
>>  rpm -q libidn-devel
>> libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
>> libidn-devel-0.5.15-1
>>
>> How can I erase all the old packages?
> 
> 
> I know of no easy automatic way to do it, other than manually.  In this 
> case,
> rpm -e libidn-devel-0.5.6-1
> 
> -- Rex
> 

That may be a life's work. It was in the middle of a 
fc3->fc4 upgrade. Over 300 packages updated.

Sigh.

sean