On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:49:59PM +0200, Olaf Zaplinski wrote: > # rpm -qa | grep audit-libs | xargs rpm -e --allmatches > error: package audit-libs_1.3.1-1.el5.i386 is not installed > error: package audit-libs_1.3.1-1.el5.x86_64 is not installed > > > Perhaps because of a bash alias? > > alias rpm='rpm --qf '\''%{name}_%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'\''' Yes, make it: alias rpm='rpm --qf '\''%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'\''' This is just wrong (the underscore). > I had to install this because RHEL5 has a big bug: when you run rpm > directly, it produces this funny output: > > # rpm -q audit-libs > audit-libs-1.3.1-1.el5 > audit-libs-1.3.1-1.el5 This is perfectly ok. It just does not list the architecture, as rpm never did, and it is not implemented because of backwards compatibility reasons. > RHEL4 has no problem like this. RHEL4 behaves exactly the same, but you might not have installed two architectures of that package. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list