SUMMARY: rpm - resolving multiple pkg instances

["Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]" <jcarro10@sprintspectrum.com>]

I managed to resolve this with a leap of faith:

  rpm -ivh --replacefiles glibc-2.2.5-42.i686.rpm \
    glibc-common-2.2.5-42.i386.rpm

A check with:

  rpm -q glibc
  rpm -q glibc-common

revealed that yes, both old (redundant) versions were still there, and the
new (correct) version was also there for each of these packages.

I then followed up with:

  rpm -e --allmatches glibc-common-2.2.5-34 glibc-2.2.5-34

and then confirmed that the desired result had completed with:

  rpm -q glibc
  rpm -q glibc-common

A final check with the following verification gave me the warm fuzzies, when
it returned with no problem:

  rpm -V glibc-common glibc

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Honourable mentions to:

- Sven Heinicke for suggesting:

  rpm --rebuilddb

(which I'd neglected to mention in my original e-mail that I'd tried, to no
avail)

and to:

- Carter Baltimore for suggesting I update to a later version of glibc.
  
jc


-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] 
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:20 PM
To: 'linuxmanagers@linuxmanagers.org'
Subject: Q: rpm - resolving multiple pkg instances


This should describe the problem pretty quickly:

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002

$ rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.5-34
glibc-2.2.5-34

$ rpm -q glibc-common
glibc-common-2.2.5-34
glibc-common-2.2.5-34

As you can see, I've got duplicate entries in the RPM database.  I'm
familiar with the --allmatches option for removing packages, but it's
somewhat difficult to remove glibc.  :-/

FWIW, I just finished upgrading from an older version of glibc/glibc-common.
I've downloaded version 2.2.5-42 in preparation for another attempt to clean
this up.  Previously, there were 2 instances of glibc/glibc-common, but with
different versions.

I suspect that when I run:

  rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2.5-42.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.2.5-42.i386.rpm

that I'll end up updating both instances of each package in the RPM
database.  I'm hopeful that someone can suggest a better approach.

TIA

jc
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