From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) Description of problem: I updated rpm through red-carpet, along with some other recent updates (krb5, ...). Today, red-carpet still listed rpm-python and krb5-configs as 'to be updated'. Installing them again did not resolve this (still listed as 'to be installed'). rpm -qa listed both the new and the old version for both of these packages; since I figured the RPM database had become corrupted, I ran rpm --rebuilddb. Now rpm -qa STILL lists both new and old versions of the packages, AND lists version 4.0.2-6x of rpm-python TWICE. How do I resolve this? How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Reinstalling rpm with the flags '-U --force' should eliminate duplicate installed copies. Otherwise, you will need to remove rpm manually, making sure that you save a copy of the executable in order to reinstall the rpm packages. Something like cp /bin/rpm /bin/orpm rpm -e --allmatches -vv rpm rpm-python /bin/orpm rpm-4.0.2* rpm-python-4.0.2* should work.