On 2000/12/15 tom strickland wrote:
> 
> Further checks on the rpm database reveal that some of the packages
> that I recently updated using MandrakeUpdate seem to be duplicated
> in the database:
> 

This can happen, for example, if some post-install scripts to be run
by rpm fail before the install deletes the entry for the old package
in the rpm database. You can safely rpm -e the old one, files that
are 'owned' by both the old and the new versions are not deleted.
Happened to me frquently.

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                     #> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre1 #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 22:25:20 CET 2000 i686


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