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GNU hiccup?



I upgraded my home system from RedHat 5.1 to 5.2, and several
packages blarfed with the error:

execution of script failed
	cannot open RPM file fileutils-3.16-10.i386.rpm: Success

Substitute "fileutils...." with this list:
info, fileutils, autoconf, bc, binutils, cpio, cvs, egcs, emacs,
findutils, gcc, gdb, glibc-devel, gpm, indent, m4, make, mgetty,
mtools, psacct, readline, screen, sed, tar, time, wget 

Note how most of these are GNU tools. Is it just me, or do you think
that my linux box suddenly took a stance agains RMS in the GNU/Linux
holy war? :-)

Seriouslier now, these packages /seem/ to have been installed,
BUT without properly uninstalling the OLD versions:

	# rpm -q sed			(for instance)
	sed-2.05-10
	sed-3.02-1

Huh?
	# /bin/sed --version
	GNU sed version 3.02
	...

	# rpm -V sed
	S.5....T   /bin/sed
	S.5....T   /usr/man/man1/sed.1

Oy.

It looks like the rpm database wasn't cleaned from the old versions.
Anyone seen anything like this before? I've upgraded Red Hat systems
quite a few times myself, but never seen this happen.

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