Description of problem: rpm ignores obsoletes statements across arch. bug 157194 is an example of this. openoffice.org-style-gnome is obsoleted by the latest openoffice.org packages: # rpm -q --obsoletes openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3 openoffice openoffice.org-style-gnome but the openoffice.org-style-gnome package wasn't removed during upgrade: # rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" openoffice.org openoffice.org-style-gnome openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3.i386 openoffice.org-style-gnome-1.1.0-16.9.EL.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2.3-13
*** Bug 170571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yup. Obsoletes: are same color (i.e. elf32 can obsolete elf32, not elf64) , as requested by yum et al depsolvers.
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