Re: Multilib packages and common identical files issue

[Matthias Saou <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>]

Rex Dieter wrote :

> Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> 
> > Am I right to believe that this is a bug in rpm, where it should be
> > keeping these "common" files upon erasing one of the two multilib
> > packages (and ideally timestamping them with the correct timestamps
> > from the remaining package)?
> 
> rpm certainly should be leaving identical common files behind (and it does
> in most cases).  If not, then imo, it certainly is a bug.

But it seems like it doesn't... maybe only for "special" files tagged
as documentation or translations. Still, it looks like a bug. If no one
knows of an existing bug report about this problem, I'll file a new one.

Matthias

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