What to do when rpm verification fails

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jul 7 17:21:55 UTC 2006


T. Horsnell wrote:
>> T. Horsnell wrote:
>>> 1. I seem to have some duplicate package names (this is on an x86_64
>>>    system which has only been 'up2date'ed once immediately after
>>>    installation) e.g:
>>>
>>> [root at ls1 ~]$ rpm -q tcp_wrappers
>>> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2
>>> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2
>> You may have both x86_64 and i386 versions installed.
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' tcp_wrappers
> 
> Aha. I do indeed have both i386 and x86_64 versions installed for the ones
> which rpm -V is complaining about. But why does this confuse rpm?

I wouldn't have thought it would.

> Can I tell it to only do one sort?

Try:
$ rpm -V tcp_wrappers.i386
$ rpm -V tcp_wrappers.x86_64

> Would this make any difference?

I'd be surprised if it did.

Paul.




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