Re: Problems with rpm database

From: Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm_at_ATrpms.net)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:04:35 +0100
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Carl Reynolds wrote:
    > Axel Thimm wrote:
    >
    > >.... remove all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need
    > >openoffice
    > >or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
    > >
    > > http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=326
    > > http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334
    > >
    > >See
    > >
    > > http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334#c2
    > >
    > >for how to make your system "singlelib".
    > >
    >
    > Sorry to be silent on this for so long, I have been trying to use Axel's
    > advice. The technique outlined in bug report 334 allowed me to remove
    > all duplicate packages and allowed
    > apt-get update
    > to complete with no errors or warnings.
    >
    > However, when I run
    > apt-get dist-upgrade
    > it offers to remove my entire system
    >
    > I've included the output from the command below, but I'm thinking of
    > switching over to yum. It seems to work better on this system.
    >
    > Why does apt-get say it wants to remove all those packages? I especially
    > don't understand what's happening with bash, grep, sed, gawk, etc.
    > Shouldn't those be left alone? As you can see I aborted the run when it
    > asked me if I wanted to continue.

    Try

    apt-get check

    first to see, whether apt detects something irregular in the rpm
    database. Then try

    apt-get upgrade

    (no dist). Any packages "held back" are candidated to have caused the
    panic to apt-get dist-upgrade. 

    -- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net



    


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