From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Sometimes rpm complains that the package name you gave on the command line is ambiguous, when two packages of the same name are installed. For example % rpm --test --erase glibc --nodeps error: "glibc" specifies multiple packages It would be more helpful to list the packages it specifies, e.g. error: "glibc" specifies multiple packages: glibc-2.3.5-10.x86_64 glibc-2.3.5-10.i386 This makes it clear how you can specify which one you want. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.4.1-22 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm command line as in the description 2. 3. Actual Results: 'specifies multiple packages' error Expected Results: I would like it to give the error but also a list of packages that matched. Additional info:
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I believe this bug report relates to rpm itself and not to Fedora. In the old days the 'upstream' bug tracker for rpm was on Red Hat's bugzilla. There was some discussion about finding a new home for rpm development, and I don't know what is the right place to report rpm bugs now. Nonetheless, I will check that I can reproduce this on FC6.
Confirmed reproducible on FC7 test 2. Note, this is intended to be a bug against rpm. If Red Hat's bugzilla database is no longer the right place for these (as it used to be in the old days when jbj was maintaining rpm) then please point me to the correct upstream location for reporting rpm bugs.
Don't worry; jbj still watches this Bugzilla. You didn't include a patch, though, so maybe he's got higher priority work at the moment. I like the RFE though. ++
User pnasrat's account has been closed
Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Moving to devel as FC4 is very much EOL
Updating version to Fedora 7 as per comment #3.
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FWIW, this got just fixed upstream while fixing something else in the surrounding code.