Yes, that did not work and left the first rpm in place. I think we did
something bad with the EVR and rpm was unable to find / remove the old version.
For instance, on the command line, I am able to do a
“rpm -qi rpmone-${version}-${release}” and get output, for the second more
correctly named rpm.
if I do the same to the first rpmone, rpm cannot find it and says that the
package is not installed. Yet both packages show up in a ‘rpm -qa’ or ‘rpm -qi
rpmone’ (no version or release)
From: Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 4:11 PM
To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: rpm did not remove previous version
Did you type "rpm -Uvh ..."
or "rpm -ivh ..."?
In almost all circumstances (kernels being the major exception), "rpm -Uvh ...
" should be used.
hth
73 de Jeff
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On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Matt Hall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
We had a bit of a mis-naming snafu that we’re trying to sort out how to fix.
First rpm was
Name: rpmone
Version: 1.1.branchname-352
Release: 1
We later fixed the versioning, because it caused issues / was not upgrading
when a new version was installed.
Second rpm was
Name: rpmone
Version: 1.2.branchname
Release: 381
The second one increments the Release field at build time. The first one was
incrememting the Version field.
When we install the second one, it installs, but does not remove the first one.
So now we’re left with systems that have two rpms of the same name, but
different version/releases.
Is there anything we can do in the creation/install of the 1.2 rpm to clear out
or remove any 1.1? We tried Obsoletes,
but that seems to be mainly for rpm name changes, not this version/release
issue we have.
These were built/installed on CentOS 5.8, with rpm version 4.4.2.3
Any pointers or docs to look at would be helpful or google keywords to search
on,
Thanks,
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