On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Probably in connection with some version of yumex, I have somehow > gotten both */fc26.i686 and */fc26.x86_64 forms of a dozen or so rpms for > compiz. > > This has not been a problem till now. fc26 (and, unless I'm > misremembering, fc25 and fc24 before that) has just ignored the > superfluous ones. But now system-upgrade is choking on the ones for fc27. > > The machine is actually .x86_64, as I have now discovered. I > tried adding --allowerasing and --allowerasing --best, but with no > success. > > Do I dare do something like "dnf remove compiz"?? (Or perhaps > "dnf remove */compiz/*/.i686 ???) > > I had a failed partial upgrade and ended up with a ton of duplicate packages (not quite the same issue, but tangential) I ended up trying to get a list of the packages I wanted to remove into a text file and then something like: $ cat <file> | xargs rpm -e --nodeps Thanks, Richard
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