On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:37:45AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Yep. It is a darn nuisance that there is no reference counting. RPM > allows files to overlap if the md5sums are the same. And when the > package is removed it removes all of the files. This seems to be a > basic design flaw. (However one that could be fixed with the addition > of reference counting.) Oh... that's not what I remember from non-multilib packages sharing files. AFAIK there is a reference kept that works fine (but I did not test that recently). I thought the problem specifically arises with multilib packages, maybe due to the "colored" files. > Don't ever upgrade? Many people believe that you can only scrape It's not an upgrade problem. It's a problem when you at some point want to remove the 32-bit versions of some packages. > clean and reinstall. Alternatively you would need to keep both > packages completely in lock step, that is, upgrade both the 32-bit and > 64-bit packages at the same time on the same command line. That works fine, I think. > Alternatively reinstall the 64-bit packages on top of themselves to > replace the removed parts of themselves. Yep... -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
