From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Epiphany/1.6.5 Description of problem: A fresh install of FC5T2, then yum update, yum upgrade gives me two vixie-crons: $ 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: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
Nothing has changed in the vixie-cron .spec file that could cause this. When yum cannot complete its Update transaction for some reason, it may not do its "Cleanup" transaction, so duplicates of many packages can remain - this has happened for me many times. When it does, I manually find all the duplicate packages and then 'rpm -Uvh --force' the duplicates to the newer package. I think if this occurs, yum should at least save a "cleanup" script that users can run, or should automatically retry a previously failed cleanup phase on the next run - leaving duplicate instances of packages around is not a good idea.
Thanks! Filed RFE bug 181055.