Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes: >> And those users that actually care can remove them easily enough. > > Only if the RPM problem gets fixed... > Lets try to focus on the rpm problem then, which is far worse then the default multilib behaviour. The default multilib behaviour does make sense, try installing google earth after removing all i?86 packages. Now can we please get some progress on the rpm issue? Let me repeat myself: --- > 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. --- And (gee surprise) even here on the mailing list again noone responded to my serious and motivated suggestion, that sucks and leads me to believe that rpm (the foundation of our believed distribution) is currently an unmaintained piece of crap. Is it really? Does really no one care about rpm?? Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
