x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

[Tomas Mraz]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:16 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:56, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 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 ...
> 
> That sounds like it fits what I see. In that case, the answer seems to be to 
> see if the CRC matches what is in the database for the other package that 
> lays claim to the file. If so, leave it alone.
> 
> So, I moved on to removing kdebase....
> 
> [root at spirit ~]# rpm -q --whatrequires kdebase | grep i386
> 
> OK, good...nothing needs kdebase i386
> 
> [root at spirit ~]# rpm -e kdebase-3.4.91-2.i386
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is needed by (installed) 
> HelixPlayer-1.0.4-4.i386

The --whatrequires option queries dependencies directly - it doesn't do
a recursive search for all the things which the package provides (such
as /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and all the kde base libraries).

-- 
Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>