On Saturday 20 January 2001 00:26, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2001 11:14, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2001 14:44, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> >
> > OK, I'll answer this myself. I've been using update from the cooker
> > installer, assuming that if an RPM updates it throws away the previous
> > version. But no - I had _THREE_ versions of lilo installed. Deleting
> > the earlier versions and reinstalling the latest cured the problem.
> >
> > I then searched for other duplicates and found these:
> > libgimp-devel, libglib*-devel, htdig, bash1, XFree86-100dpi-fonts,
> > XFree86-75dpi-fonts, fdutils, libSDL_image, libSDL_mixer and libgal.
> > There may be more - it's hard to tell with so many packages being renamed
> > with 0, 1, etc. at the end.
>
> The easiest way I've found to search for duplicates is:
>
> # rpm -qa | sort | less
>
> > So there is either something else wrong with the installer or with the
> > scripts for these packages. Please investigate, Mandrake.
>
> It happens whenever one of the scripts fails. For example, I've got 3
> versions of ucd-snmp because I don't start it up. The script can't turn it
> off (or doesn't find the right startup file) so it doesn't de-install it,
> even though rpm said it's installed.
>
> I've seen quite a few cases of Mandrake (and Redhat) installs getting it
> wrong with regards to what is enabled or not before the install and after.
> I'm currently exchanging e-mail with Mandrake about ssh since it gets
> disabled following an install, even if it was enabled before. I've seen
> other earlier cases where bind gets turned off.
>
> Cheers,
> .../Ed
Thanks Ed. I feel more confident about using the installer now I know what's
causing the duplicates. I'll do an `rpm -qa | sort | less` after each
install now.
Regards,
Peter
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