Re: How to remove an i686 pkg without touching x86_64 one?

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

Eric B. wrote :

> I've got an RHEL4 x86_64 system that I installed a while ago.  I was doing
> some maintenance on it, and noticed that I had two different versions of
> glibc installed: glibc.i686 and glibc.x86_64.  The only way I am able to see
> the difference between the packages is using rpm -q --query --queryformat
> %{ARCH} glibc.
> 
> I would like to either remove the i686 version of glibc or at the very least
> see which pkgs depend upon it.  How can I check the dependencies on the i686
> pkg or remove the specific i686 package without touching the x86_64 one?

Just do :

rpm -e glibc.i686

...and you'll see everything that depends on it ;-)

Matthias

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