Interruption in the up2date or yum update process caused the installation of multiple versions of the same package.

 

##RPM Build issue


Interruption in the up2date or yum update process caused the installation of multiple versions of the same package.

Resolution

If the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or later, the package-cleanup command can be used:


$ package-cleanup --dupes
$ package-cleanup --cleandupes

The --dupes command will list the duplicate packages installed on the machine, while the --cleandupes switch will remove the older versions. package-cleanup command is provided by the yum-utils package.
 

 the approach that worked for me:

        sudo package-cleanup --dupes

        sudo package-cleanup --cleandupes

        sudo package-cleanup --cleandupes --removenewestdupes

        sudo yum update

if the the yum update still fails - continue as follows:

check the installed versions of the offending library with yum search for example: if the problem is with libselinux

        sudo yum list --showduplicates libselinux

    in the results you'll probably see library versions ending with x86_64 or i686 for example : libselinux.i686 libselinux.x86_64

now- we need to find out which one of these to get rid of, so we run: