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keerthi

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Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 95

[SOLVED] Two pacmans and kernels

keerthi ~  $  pacman -Q | grep pacman
pacman 3.1.3-1
pacman 3.1.2-1

keerthi ~  $  pacman -Q | grep kernel26
kernel26 2.6.24.3-4
kernel26 2.6.24.3-3

I tried force installing (with -f) pacman 3.1.3-1 and kernel26 2.6.24.3-3 (repo version). Pacman reports it upgraded successfully but  duplicates appears when I query the packages. How do I deal with these?

* I only have core/extra/community enabled.

Last edited by keerthi (2008-03-14 02:31:10)

keerthi

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Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] Two pacmans and kernels

Nevermind. Fixed it.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: [SOLVED] Two pacmans and kernels

For the record, how did you fix it? I'm as intrigued as another user with the same problem might be

And also, i'm actually very intrigued how you managed to get 2.6.24.3-4 on your system

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keerthi

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Registered: 2007-11-18

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] Two pacmans and kernels

kernel 2.6.24.3-4. I compiled it from source. I was hoping it would create a LOCALVERSION but the build upgraded the kernel I already had (2.6.24.3-3). I ended up with an unbootable system so I restored my / with an week-old backup. After restore, I found some of the packages duplicated - one I got from repos since my last backup and the other came from the restore process. LOL!

I had to manually delete the offending versions from /var/lib/pacman/local/

Lesson Learned: Remember to delete everything from / and then restore from backup to avoid ghost packages