On 18 May 2013 02:38, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 05:57 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> I've now lost track of the ins-and-outs of this thread but perhaps
>> this script [1] may help. It runs in test-mode by default (no action
>> is taken). When executed with the "--notest" flag, then the actual
>> work is done.
>>
>> A typical usage sequence would be:
>>
>> ./rpmdup_remover.sh
>> ./rpmdup_remover.sh --notest
>> yum update
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>> [1] http://www.centos.toracat.org/ajb/scripts/rpmdup_remover.sh
>>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thank you!  The script unscrambled things to the point that
> I was able to finish the job manually.
>
> I had a duplicate "qt" in both 32 bit and 64 bit.  I removed
> the 32 bit.  Now things are much better behaved.
>
> I also found that if you add "--setopt=protected_multilib=false"
> to your yum run string, you don't get the protected error,
> but the just kicks the can down the road.
>
> -T

Excellent news. Thank you for reporting back with your success.

No doubt toracat [2] will purr with satisfaction, knowing that the
script still does the deed.

Alan.

[2] http://elrepo.org/people/ajb/toracat.jpg