Bug 181055

Summary: rfe: find duplicate packages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <lsof>
Component: yum-utilsAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 0.6 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Description Need Real Name 2006-02-12 12:55:18 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If yum gets interrupted during an update of a package, it may not call cleanup.

It would be good to have a yum util that checks for dupes of packages.

e.g. find these:
$ rpm -q vixie-cron
vixie-cron-4.1-42.FC5
vixie-cron-4.1-44.FC5

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2006-02-24 16:39:04 UTC 
We're working on various ways to avoid this problem but in the meantime would it
be reasonable for this feature to be in the package-cleanup script in yum-utils?
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2006-02-24 17:15:49 UTC 
That would be great!
Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2006-02-24 21:32:53 UTC 
okay I added package-cleanup --dupes

it will sort the rpmdb and produce the lists it ignores:

1. kernels b/c they can have dupes
2. gpg-pubkey 'packages' for obvious reasons
3. multilib 'duplicates'

it will print out anything else. It up to the user to figure out which one they
want to remove (though they should probably remove both and reinstall one of them)
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2006-03-06 18:39:50 UTC 
Can you tell me which version this will be in?
I'm using rawhide version yum-utils-0.5-1.
Comment 5 Seth Vidal 2006-03-07 06:25:13 UTC 
it'll be in 0.6.

hopefully I'll push that out in a few days.