Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3336 mails)

[sargon <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently upgraded my MPlayer-athlon1 via Jan Engelhardt's APT 
repository. He had a problems with the RPMs from a couple of days 
ago, as those RPMs did not properly upgrade the RPM database (I was 
left with two different versions).

After fighting this for half an hour (I ended up removing everything 
which needed MPlayer-athlon1, then removing MPlayer-athlon1, 
installing the older RPM, then re-installing all those apps), I 
thought I had a clean RPM database.

However, after upgrading to the new version in his repository, I still 
have the older version in the database, meaning I now have two 
versions of MPlayer-athlon1, MPlayer-athlon1-1.0pre7try2-28 and 
MPlayer-athlon1-1.0pre7try2-29. When I try to remove the old one, I 
get this 
error:

/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24859: line 1: DEFINE_FLAVOR_DEL: command not found
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24859: line 2: flavor_del: command not found
error: %preun(MPlayer-athlon1-1.0pre7try2-28) scriptlet failed, exit 
status 127

I have rebuilt the RPM database numerous times, both before and 
after trying to remove MPlayer-athlon1-1.0pre7try2-28.

Howe can I get a clean database, with only one version of 
MPlayer-athlon1, without completely rebuilding my laptop?

All suggestions are greatlyappreciated.

Thanks.

Sargon