Re: rpm duplicate packages

Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> writes:

> If you have a LOT of them, then chances are someone did not upgrade the
> packages or system properly, or reinstalled a newer version of Linux
> without reformatting the partitions.

FWIW, I've seen this happen when upgrading a system en masse (things like
rpm -Fvh *rpm 
in a directory containing ALL of the rawhide RPMs); rpm sometimes hangs in
infinite select() loops, and it seems to upgrade just fine, except the
record of the old package is retained.  It's a PITA to deal with later.

Cheers,
-- 
  Ami Fischman
  [email protected]