Johnny Hughes wrote:
It is a headache (IMHO) to have to maintain a bunch of multiple arch RPMS. As I said before, IF you stay with only the 32bit items that are in the official x86_64 repository then you should be mostly fine. I personally think that the way x86_64 is handled is a buggy kludge (yes, I know I am the maintainer of this $ARCH :P). An example is that if you install an i386 and x86_64 package of the same name ... then remove the i386 package ... some of the shared files (that were identical on install and worked ok) that are in both might be removed. These should stay as the x86_64 package is still installed. This happens often enough that I wrote a script that figures out what should be there on x86_64 packages and gives me a list of packages that I need to reinstall to get the shared files back if they are missing.
It sounds to me that rpm has a bug. It might be a design flaw, but still a bug.
If it allows two packages to install the same file (it didn't used to), then it needs to maintain a use count. Like for modules.
Only when the use count reaches 0 can a file be removed. Have you tried your fortunes with bugzilla@RH? -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please do not reply off-list _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
