How to resolve duplicate RPMs

Introduction

While trying to install or update RPMs you noticed there are duplicate RPMs reported. An indicator is when trying to update an RPM or run yum update you see "conflicts with" errors like:

Error: lvemanager conflicts with lve-wrappers-0.6-11.el7.cloudlinux.x86_64

Error: Package: ea-php72-php-calendar-7.2.19-1.1.3.cpanel.x86_64 (EA4) 
Requires: ea-php72-php-common(x86-64) = 7.2.19-1.1.3.cpanel

You can confirm this by running the following to show what RPMs are duplicates.

package-cleanup --dupes

Example output:

# package-cleanup --dupes|grep cpanel 
ea-php70-php-litespeed-7.0.30-1.1.6.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-php71-pear-1.10.1-12.12.7.cpanel.noarch 
ea-php56-php-imap-5.6.36-1.1.6.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-php55-php-iconv-5.5.38-37.37.5.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-php55-php-fpm-5.5.38-37.37.5.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-php55-php-devel-5.5.38-37.37.5.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-apache24-tools-2.4.33-5.5.1.cpanel.x86_64 
ea-php55-php-imap-5.5.38-37.37.5.cpanel.x86_64

Procedure

Instead of using the cleandupes flag, you should use the following that will take the list of RPMs and then clear the RPM from the RPM database and then reinstall that RPM to ensure it is fully installed.

package-cleanup --dupes | tail -n +3 | sort --version-sort | awk 'NR % 2 {print "rpm -e --justdb --nodeps " $1 } !(NR % 2) {match($0, "-[0-9]");print "yum -y reinstall " substr($0,0,RSTART-1)}' | sh