i386 junk on x86_64 default install

[Michel Salim]

On 10/26/06, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:

> > It shouldn't, and that's why it's a bug. (:
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/140055
>
> Yes and a bug that needs fixing, its also here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209306
>
> Where I've suggested a reasonable workaround, the problem is that
> currently rpm doesn't check if  a file has multiple owners but just
> removes it if a package owning it gets removed, when this file is under
> one of the following dirs:
>     _skip("/usr/share/zoneinfo"),
>     _skip("/usr/share/locale"),
>     _skip("/usr/share/i18n"),
>     _skip("/usr/share/doc"),
>     _skip("/usr/lib/locale"),
>     _skip("/usr/src"),
>     _skip("/lib/modules"),
>
>
> This is known as the skipdirs patch, which was added because otherwise
> rpm's resident mem usage when doing rpm -e on a kernel when you have say
> 20+ kernels installed could become over 1Gig, which is a but of a
> problem on 512Mb or less machines.
>
> The real fix for this would be to fix rpm's absurd mem usage in this
> scenarion but that isn't easily doable, thus I've suggested to reduce
> the skipdirs list to:
>     _skip("/usr/share/zoneinfo"),
>     _skip("/usr/share/i18n"),
>     _skip("/usr/lib/locale"),
>     _skip("/usr/src"),
>     _skip("/lib/modules"),
>
> Notice how the following 2 dirs where removed from the list:
>     _skip("/usr/share/locale"),
>     _skip("/usr/share/doc"),
>
> Removing these 2 dirs is unlikely to trigger the Gig memusage scenario
> again, while at the same time reducing the impact of this problem to
> almost zero.
>
> Unfortunately nobody sofar has responded to my suggestion to as an
> intermediate solution remove these 2 dirs from the skipdirs list, thus
> reducing the impact of this bug to almost 0.
>
Who's the contact person in Red Hat when it comes to RPM right now,
actually? The RPM limbo might be part of the problem here.

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~msalim