Using FC5, upgrading packages with yum and/or yumex.
While parsing the output of "yum list", I noticed a few multiple package entries with different versions. This was confirmed with "rpm -q packagename". A short sample follows:

[root@xxx ~]# rpm -q wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-5
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-7.fc5
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5

[root@xxx ~]# rpm -q util-linux
util-linux-2.13-0.20
util-linux-2.13-0.20.1

[root@xxx ~]# rpm -q tzdata.noarch
tzdata-2006d-1.fc5
tzdata-2006f-1.fc5
tzdata-2006g-1.fc5

Can anyone tell me if this is normal or a bug?

Thanks,

Manny

Not sure about YUM, but YUMEX has a setting for removing the RPMs after installing them.

PTrenholme you are wright, however that setting is to remove the downloaded rpms. By the way you can find those rpms at /var/cache/yum/<depository>/packages; provided you have not chosen the remove option. This is the same for yum as is for yumex.

Manny

Yes, I knew that. In fact, my /var/cache is symlinked to a different drive that's backed up fairly frequently. That's so I don't need to back up the "working" software, but can recover from a crash (or boo-boo) without needing to download too much.

Try this: which should list any duplicates actually loaded. For my system, nothing is printed. So, if you see anything, it's a little strange. I think the query you ran is just telling you that those RPMs exist on your system, although I haven't reread the rpm info file to check.

PTrenholme, I have a similar set up I have a separate partition where I created local depositories for the different web sites (hi speed internet is not available where I live}. The query is "yum list" which I pipe to a file. I copy the file to "open office write", where I re-format it into a table. The first column of the table is the name or the rpn, the second is the version, the third shows whether it is installed or resides in a repository. The first column of the file is copied to a text file, which is queried with "uniq -cid /your textfile /yourdestinationfile".
a sample of this last file is:

2 evolution.i386
2 evolution-webcal.i386
2 gnome-panel.i386
4 gpg-pubkey.None
2 kernel.i686
4 openoffice.org-core.i386
2 planner.i386
2 system-config-date.noarch
2 xmms.i386
2 xsane-gimp.i386
4 yelp.i386
2 yum.noarch

The numbers refer to how many times a given package is installed. Executing "rpm -q packagename" will show the different installations for the package.

Manny

Trenholme, your script test for equality of entries. The output from rpm -qa will not have duplicate entries, it will show the same packages name but different version number. This makes x == $0 false every time. Part or the rpm -qa follows:


ethtool-3-1.2.1
evince-0.5.1-3
evolution-2.6.2-1.fc5.3
evolution-2.6.2-1.fc5.5
evolution-data-server-1.6.2-1.fc5.1
evolution-webcal-2.4.1-3.2
evolution-webcal-2.4.1-3.4
expat-1.95.8-8.2
expat-devel-1.95.8-8.2
faac-1.24-5.lvn5

I removed all duplicate installs except the kernels and the gpg-pubkey.
The box shows no problems. I will keep an eye on this.

Thanks for your help,

Manny