I just checked for duplicate rpms i have 2 dump, 2 popt and
rpm-build-4.0-13mdk and 2 rpm-build-4.0-15mdk and 2 rpm-python. How would i
get rid of the duplicates in this case
Salane
On Friday 19 January 2001 22:10, you wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2001 19:16, andre wrote:
> > I think you mean a packages update and not an install but.. . But don't
> > you see it when an install goes wrong. If you use rpm -Fvh or
> > Mandrakeupdate from the command-line you see an error-messages. And to
> > get ride of multipules just do an rpm -e --noscripts
> > packages-name-with-the-old-complete-name-without-the-rpm-bit
> >
> > Say if you have package-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > and package-1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > installed
> > do rpm -e --noscripts package-1-1mdk
>
> NO!!! I'm pretty sure you'll seriously shoot yourself in the foot doing
> this. rpm has no concept of which VERSION of the package you're
> uninstalling, and doesn't know that two packages have the same file. It's
> quite likely that you'll remove a file that -2 wants if it was common with
> -1. I did that once with rpm. Not a pretty sight...
>
> .../Ed
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