On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:09:33AM -0400, sdkovacs wrote: > > I updated to mythtv-0.23 the other day. Today I ran a yum update > > again, and it's looking to upgrade 0.22 libraries that hung around > > after the upgrade. I can do a yum remove libmyth\*-0.22, but I'm > > wondering why those libraries were not removed as part of the yum > > update. > > that is general policy which doesn't really apply to mythtv: Libs are > packaged in a forward compatible way so that if an application still > needs libfoo-1.0.so.2.3 the next update with libfoo-1.1.so.4.5 doesn't > break it. It leaves unused packages behind which you can identify with > > rpm -q --whatprovides shared-library-package > > You can also use package-cleanup with some options to identify and > remove these packages. > Yes, I've also used 'package-cleanup --leaves --exclude-devel --exclude-bin' to list libraries which are no longer needed. You need to install yum-utils in order to get the package-cleanup utility. /Brian/
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