purging duplicate rpm versions

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:43 PM, seth vidal wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:31 -0400, oscaruser at programmer.net wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> An installed rpm is being listed multiple (three) times, with different 
>> version numbers. How can I remove the older versions, but keep the 
>> latest intact? I have tried to rebuild the rpm database, and various 
>> erase/force commands, but no good.
>> 
> 
> In this case the postun script is failing which is causing it to not be
> cleaned out of the rpmdb.
> 
> rpm -e --noscripts pkgname-ver-rel.arch 
> 

Don't you need an epoch too?

What if there are multiple packages with identical version and release
but different epoch's?!?


73 de Jeff