Duplicate packages in an old Red Hat 7.2 box

[Tximis]

Hello!

First of all, sorry for posting a Red Hat specific question in a Fedora forum.. but I need to solve those problems before migration to FC.

I have an old Red Hat 7.2 box with duplicated RPM packages, for example:

# rpm -qa mysql-server
mysql-server-3.23.54a-3.72
mysql-server-3.23.54a-3.72
mysql-server-3.23.54a-3.72
mysql-server-3.23.54a-3.72

I have tried to rebuild RPM database with "rpm --rebuilddb", but doesnt work, same duplicated packages..

In the past with Fedore Core 3 I solved similiar problem removing "___db.000" files at /var/lib/rpm/ but in Red Hat 7.2 RPM database version there arent those files..:

# rpm -qa rpm
rpm-4.0.4-7x.18

# ls -l /var/lib/rpm
total 16328
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2670592 Apr 10 12:37 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 10 12:37 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 442368 Apr 10 12:37 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2621440 Apr 10 12:37 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 10 12:37 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 10 12:37 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Apr 10 12:37 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11599872 Apr 10 12:44 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94208 Apr 10 12:37 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36864 Apr 10 12:37 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69632 Apr 10 12:37 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61440 Apr 10 12:37 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 10 12:37 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Apr 10 12:37 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Apr 10 12:37 Triggername

Any ideas for solve this problem? thanks!

Regards,

[Tximis]

Hi!

Problem solved following those great tips:

http://astokes.org/?q=node/49

Regards!