[Yum] conflict between ghostscript and foomatic

[seth vidal]

> Indicated that the update was not done.
> 
> When I looked in /var/cache/yum/updates/packages I found 
> ghostscript-7.07-15.1.i386.rpm and installed it with:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh ghostscript-7.07-15.1.i386.rpm
> 
> After that, yum update would work, but I still had something like 15 
> other instances of the new and old versions both being returned by
> rpm -qa | grep xxx.
> 
> I fixed those in the same way as the foomatic-3.0.0-9 example above.
> 
> I hope that's clear. I'm not sure I've described it wall.

something else is going on on this machine with the rpmdb and updates.
You're sure that your rpmdb isn't being locked by something else at the
same time, right? Nothing like up2date running or anything?
Moreover - what version of rpm is this machine running?

-sv