On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:09 -0700, John Caruso wrote:
> With 64-bit machines it's often the case that there are two versions of
> a given RPM, i386 and x86_64:
>
> # rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})\n" vte
> vte-0.11.11-6 (i386)
> vte-0.11.11-6 (x86_64)
>
> But although rpm -e allows you to specify "--allmatches" to erase all RPMs
> with a given name, there doesn't appear to be any way to selectively erase
> just the RPM for one of the two architectures while leaving the other one
> intact. This is as of RHEL4.
>
> It's not always possible to just erase both rpms and then re-add one of
> them, because sometimes the RPM in question is a critical RPM and one of
> the architecture versions of the RPM *must* be present at all times, and
> so deleting both of them will render the system unusable. The rpm command
> really needs a way to erase just one of the RPMs.
>
> Am I missing some option that will allow this?
>
rpm -e packagename.arch
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