Bug 353881
| Summary: | RFE manpage does not describe how to erase a package from a specific architecture | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Ewald Beekman <rh-bugzilla> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | ffesti, pschiffe |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | ManPageChange |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-03-08 11:46:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is more than a bit embarrassing... but RHEL5 has entered development stage 2 ruling RFE out for updates. I at least added the description to the man page in the upstream repository. Thanks for pointing out that this was missing. |
Description of problem: If you got for instance both the i386 and the x86_64 version of a package installed, rpm -qa lists them both with the same name. So how to proceed ifyou only want to deinstall the i386 version ? It turns out that you can append the architecture after the package name, ie: [beekman@zero]$ rpm -q zlib zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3 zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3 [beekman@zero]$ rpm -q zlib --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\n' zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3-x86_64 zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3-i386 [beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib error: "zlib" specifies multiple packages [beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib.i386 [beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib.x86_64 [beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3.x86_64 this functionality should be added to the manpage.