Recently we were asked to audit RedHat servers for RPM's which were forcefully installed
(with "--nodeps" OR "--force" option) in past.
Below if how we managed to get that working:
1) Make sure you have "yum-utils" package installed on the server.
If n't, you can install it using yum.
# yum install yum-utils
2) Once done, you can then use "package-cleanup" command to find out dependency problems
in the local RPM database.
# package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
Missing dependencies:
Package ess-openldap-2.3.1 requires ess-openssl= V2.1.1
Package kernel-debuginfo requires kernel-debuginfo-common-i686 = 2.6.18-92.el5
3) Based on the above output it was clear that both 'ess-openldap-2.3.1' and 'kernel-debuginfo rpm's
were installed on the server without resolving underlying dependencies (probably with --nodeps option).
4) Finally we had to clear these stale rpm entries from the database (with --justdb option) for the OS
upgrade script to work
# rpm -e --justdb ess-openldap-2.3.1
# rpm -e --justdb kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-92.el5
Nice work buddy..
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