URL with the tarball by private email [root@new rpm]# rpm --rebuilddb [root@new rpm]# rpm -qa | grep glib glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.4-24 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glib-1.2.10-5 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-common-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-devel-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glib2-2.0.6-1 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 glibc-2.2.5-37 glibc-2.2.5-36 [root@new rpm]# history | tail -25 242 rpm -qa | grep glibc 243 rpm --rebuilddb 244 rpm -qa | grep glibc 245 cd /var/lib 246 tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm 247 cd /var/lib/rpm 248 db_verify Packages 249 rpm -qa | grep glibc 250 mv Packages Packages-ORIG 251 db_dump Packages-ORIG | db_load Packages 252 rpm -qa 253 rpm -qa | grep glib 254 rpm --rebuilddb 255 rpm -qa | grep glib 256 history | tail -25 [root@new rpm]#
Letitng an extended rpm --rebuilddb (overnight) cured the issue
Overnight? --rebuilddb should take minutes, not hours. FYI, adding --define '_filterdbdups 1' will eliminate duplicate entries.