removing a single rpm when there are 2

[Ian Brown]

Hello,

I have an FC7 machine (x86_64).


rpm -qa | grep GLU
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7


but::
rpm -e mesa-libGLU gives:
error: "mesa-libGLU" specifies multiple packages

there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

The man page is huge, and I could not find my way around it.


Regards,
Ian

[seth vidal]

Post by Ian Brown
Hello,
I have an FC7 machine (x86_64).
rpm -qa | grep GLU
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7
error: "mesa-libGLU" specifies multiple packages
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

yum remove mesa-libGLU.x86_64

or

rpm -e mesa-libGLU.x86_64

-sv

[Bob Proulx]

Post by seth vidal

Post by Ian Brown
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

rpm -e mesa-libGLU.x86_64

Note that files shared between the two versions will also be removed
leaving the i386 version only partially remaining. It would probably
be required to reinstall the i386 version in order to return it to
complete status. Probably better to remove both and then install the
i386 version only if that is your desired ending state.

Bob

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

Post by Bob Proulx

Post by seth vidal

Post by Ian Brown
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

rpm -e mesa-libGLU.x86_64

Note that files shared between the two versions will also be removed
leaving the i386 version only partially remaining. It would probably
be required to reinstall the i386 version in order to return it to
complete status. Probably better to remove both and then install the
i386 version only if that is your desired ending state.

Are you sure about that ? As far as I remember, shared files between
packages would only be removed when the last owner was.

[]s

- --
Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

[seth vidal]

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Post by Bob Proulx

Post by seth vidal

Post by Ian Brown
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

rpm -e mesa-libGLU.x86_64

Note that files shared between the two versions will also be removed
leaving the i386 version only partially remaining. It would probably
be required to reinstall the i386 version in order to return it to
complete status. Probably better to remove both and then install the
i386 version only if that is your desired ending state.

Are you sure about that ? As far as I remember, shared files between
packages would only be removed when the last owner was.

it's a bug in rpm that causes it. I think the bug has been fixed for
rawhide/fedora 8, I _think_.

-sv

[Panu Matilainen]

Post by seth vidal

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Post by Bob Proulx

Post by seth vidal

Post by Ian Brown
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

rpm -e mesa-libGLU.x86_64

Note that files shared between the two versions will also be removed
leaving the i386 version only partially remaining. It would probably
be required to reinstall the i386 version in order to return it to
complete status. Probably better to remove both and then install the
i386 version only if that is your desired ending state.

Are you sure about that ? As far as I remember, shared files between
packages would only be removed when the last owner was.

it's a bug in rpm that causes it. I think the bug has been fixed for
rawhide/fedora 8, I _think_.

Yes. Except it'd be better described as a "bug" because it was a known
side-effect of an ages old nasty hack to bring memory usage down...
Further, that only affected files in certain directories such as
documentation and locales.

Note that rpm also allows multilib packages to "share" conflicting (same
path, different contents) executables, in such a case the binary
of the "better" arch wins and the other never gets put to the disk. Which
is fine until you remove the "better" arch package, in which case the file
goes missing although the other package claims owning such a file.

All that said, mesa-libGLU package isn't affected by either issue.

- Panu -

[Tony Earnshaw]

Post by Ian Brown
Hello,
I have an FC7 machine (x86_64).
rpm -qa | grep GLU
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7
mesa-libGLU-6.5.2-10.fc7
error: "mesa-libGLU" specifies multiple packages
there are two mesa-libGLU installed here , one is i386 and one is x86_64.
How do I erase the x86_64 version?

Don't! If you're running X you can use pirut to see the package
extensions; the x86_64 versions are installed to separate locations and
they are mostly needed.

--Tonni