On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 06:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday January 4 2003 10:34 am, Angus Auld wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Tom. I ran : > > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > > > ( ^^ that's two underscores ) > > > rpm --rebuilddb > > > > as you suggested, but I still see identical named packages > > appearing in "Install/Remove software". > > > > What could account for this has got me baffled. > > Me too ;) ... but I don't use the gui tools for package > management, prefering to do it all on the CL ... with the exception > that I like Software Sources Manager for adding/removing or just > temporarily en/disabling installed sources. So probly somebody else > who does use the gui's can help. Charles ?? > > The only time I've seen multiple packages available in the gui > tools is when I've had multiple sources defined and the same rpm was > available from all sources. BUT, that was with the old rpmdrake (pre > 9.0), and before I became an urpmi on the CL fan. The way my brain > works, that's practically ancient history ;)
I would suspect multiple sources. Even down to having cdrom and scd0 both defined in the lists as cd sources. I have seen this recently myself. Interestingly, the different identicle files showed different file sizes, yet downloading one removed the other from the list. -- Michael
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