Running "zypper up" right now, I get the following, and I recall that
I have seen similarly for some other packages over the last few weeks:
The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
gdb 7.1-2.3
gdb 7.1-2.4
gdb 7.1-3.2
gdb 7.1-3.3
gdb 7.1-3.4
gdb 7.1-3.5
gdb 7.1-3.6
gdb 7.1-3.7
gdb 7.1-3.8
gdb 7.1-3.10
gdb 7.1-6.2
gdb 7.1-6.3
So, after running the update I investigated a bit:
# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v " 1 "
9 bluez
9 dbus-1-32bit
13 flex
9 gawk
14 gdb
6 gpg-pubkey
(Note how gdb is still in this list and some packages are there more
than once. Scary.)
# rpm -qa bluez dbus-1-32bit flex gawk | sort
bluez-4.64-1.1.x86_64
bluez-4.64-1.1.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.1.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.2.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.3.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.4.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.5.x86_64
bluez-4.64-2.6.x86_64
bluez-4.69-1.3.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.11.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.11.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.12.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.13.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.14.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.2.24-1.15.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.3.2-1.3.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.3.2-2.1.x86_64
dbus-1-32bit-1.3.2-2.2.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.12.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.12.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.13.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.15.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.16.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.17.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.18.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.19.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.21.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.23.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-50.25.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-53.6.x86_64
flex-2.5.35-53.7.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.10.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.11.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.13.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.14.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.7.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.7.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.8.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-30.9.x86_64
gawk-3.1.6-34.7.x86_64
Am I the only one seeing this?
And what to do about it, not just for me, but possibly in getting
this addressed?
One instance I tried to resolve manually:
# zypper rm flex
The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
flex-2.5.35-50.11 flex-2.5.35-50.12 flex-2.5.35-50.13 flex-2.5.35-50.15
flex-2.5.35-50.16 flex-2.5.35-50.17 flex-2.5.35-50.18 flex-2.5.35-50.19
flex-2.5.35-50.21 flex-2.5.35-50.23 flex-2.5.35-50.25 flex-2.5.35-53.6
flex-2.5.35-53.7
13 packages to remove.
After the operation, 9.0 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.11 [error]
Removal of (15714)flex-2.5.35-50.11.x86_64(@System) failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package
flex-2.5.35-50.11.x86_64 is not installed
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.12 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.13 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.15 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.16 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.17 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.18 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.19 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.21 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.23 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-50.25 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-53.6 [done]
Removing flex-2.5.35-53.7 [done]
Still:
# rpm -qa flex
flex-2.5.35-50.12.x86_64
Looks like our update stack could need a bit more resilience. ;-)
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer