Bug 164518

Summary: Shared data files removed on multilib systems
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Jos Vos <jos>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 4.0CC: tmraz
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Session log for "rpm -evv zlib.i386" none

Description Jos Vos 2005-07-28 14:41:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

When on 64-bit systems both the 32- and 64-bit versions of a package are
installed, removing the 32-bit version of the package also removes the shared
data files (e.g.  the /usr/shar/doc/... files), so the 64-bit version is left
with missing files.

Uninstalling all the i386 packages on a fully installed x86_64 RHEL4 system
results in about 4800 missing files in all the remaining x86_64 packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.3.3-9_nonptl
Comment 1 Paul Nasrat 2005-10-25 22:09:44 UTC 
Jos can you confirm if the scope of the files removed is limited to:

/usr/share/zoneinfo
/usr/share/locale/
/usr/share/i18n
/usr/share/doc
/usr/lib/locale
/usr/src

I'm pretty sure I know what is causing this.  Also rpm -evv foo.i386 for a
single case would be useful to confirm my suspicion.
Comment 2 Jos Vos 2005-10-26 13:05:38 UTC 
Created attachment 120412 [details]
Session log for "rpm -evv zlib.i386"
Comment 3 Jos Vos 2005-10-26 13:24:29 UTC 
I can't confirm all your paths, but it is indeed limited to some paths, I think,
as I had the problem of missing several files in /usr/share when I had screwed
up a testsystem due to bug #170087, ended up with multiple versions of the same
package (same arch) and then removed the duplicate (oldest) versions. See my
attachment for the zlib trace on a decent system.
Comment 4 Paul Nasrat 2005-11-28 18:56:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140055 ***