x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:36:24AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:13, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > So, why is kdemultimedia i386 installed?
> 
> This just gets better...
> 
> [root at spirit ~]# rpm -e kdemultimedia-3.4.91-1.i386
> 
> So far so good. No complaints from rpm and the disk drive made noise. Now, I 
> wonder if it left the 64 bit apps alone?
> 
> [root at spirit ~]# rpm -qV kdemultimedia-3.4.91-1.x86_64
> .......T    /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-multimedia-music.menu
> .......T    /usr/share/apps/noatun/magictable
> missing     /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/apis.docbook
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/arts-structure.png
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/artsbuilder.docbook
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/common
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/detail.docbook
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/digitalaudio.docbook
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/artsbuilder/faq.docbook
> 
> Nope. It ate the files from both packages.

Ah, these happen to be the same but most likely are accounted for
only in one package to avoid "conflicts".  You removed their "owner"
and they are gone. No, I do not know that for sure ...

BTW - if you are using yum to maintain your system you will be
likely safer with

   yum remove kdemultimedia-3.4.91-1.i386

or just

   yum remove kdemultimedia.i386

Not that much difference really here but at least you will have
traces in /var/log/yum.log and possible dependency chains will
be handled for you.

   Michal