x86_64 with duplicate packages
Martin Marques
martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Sun Aug 12 22:07:20 UTC 2007
Sam Varshavchik escribió:
> Martin Marques writes:
>
>> # rpm -qa kdeutils
>> kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.x86_64
>> kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.i386
>>
>> Is it a bad idea to remove the 32bit package?
>
> No, but due to a bug in rpm, removing the 32bit package will also nuke
> the man pages and the locale files that are installed by the x86_64
> package.
>
> This is not the end of the world, and is easily fixable. After removing
> each .i386 rpm, you'll need to run rpm -U --replacepkgs on the x86_64
> rpm. Lather, rinse, repeat, for each .i386 interloper. Pain in the neck.
Don't get it. Just remove i386 of parted and man works great.
This is on a Fedora 7 system, not fully updated.
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