[Yum] Old packages not purged after yum update?

[denis]

James Antill wrote:
> denis <denisb+gmane at gmail.com> writes:
<SNIP>
>> -bzip2-libs-1.0.3-3
>>  bzip2-libs-1.0.3-4.el5_2
>  Given it's x86_64 you might want to add the arch to your package
> lists. For instance having an older bzip2-libs.i386 is not _as_ bad
> as having two versions of the .x86_64 package.

Unfortunately it seems there are two versions of the x86_64 arch packages:

bzip2-libs.x86_64          1.0.3-4.el5_2          installed
bzip2-libs.x86_64          1.0.3-3                installed

>> Is this a known issue? Is this even Yum related or RPM related?
>> In case this is a known issue, is there an easy way to purge the old
>> versions of said packages?
>  It is a bug. It's not a known issue, and it's hard to say whether it
> was yum or rpm that caused the bug. Both rpm and yum have had updates
> for numerous bug fixes since 5.0 GA.

I know, I have been tracking RHEL since 5.1 on another set of servers,
however these servers were setup from a 5.2 base repository.

>  For the cleanup you probably want to install yum-utils and run:
>  package-cleanup --dupes --problems # This will show you problems
>  package-cleanup --cleandupes       # This should auto fix any dup problems

Thank you, running:
package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
package-cleanup --cleandupes

Did indeed work it didn't find any "problems", but dupes were detected
and cleaned. It seems the version I have of package-cleanup didn't like
two tasks at once.

Really appreciate the input, thanks!

Regards
-- 
Denis Braekhus
Team Lead Managed Services
Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game