Axel Thimm wrote:
.... remove all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need openoffice or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=326 http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334
See
http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=334#c2
for how to make your system "singlelib".
Sorry to be silent on this for so long, I have been trying to use Axel's advice. The technique outlined in bug report 334 allowed me to remove all duplicate packages and allowed
apt-get update
to complete with no errors or warnings.
However, when I run apt-get dist-upgrade it offers to remove my entire system
I've included the output from the command below, but I'm thinking of switching over to yum. It seems to work better on this system.
Why does apt-get say it wants to remove all those packages? I especially don't understand what's happening with bash, grep, sed, gawk, etc. Shouldn't those be left alone? As you can see I aborted the run when it asked me if I wanted to continue.
Carl.
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
dump libacl-devel libtiff-devel rmt tzdata words
The following packages will be REMOVED:
4Suite ElectricFence GConf2 MAKEDEV MyODBC MySQL-python NetworkManager
ORBit2 Omni Omni-foomatic PyQt PyQt-devel PyXML SDL SDL-devel SDL_image
SDL_image-devel SDL_mixer SDL_mixer-devel SDL_net SDL_net-devel SysVinit
VFlib2 Xaw3d Xaw3d-devel a2ps acpid alchemist alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel
alsa-utils anacron apr-util arts arts-devel ash aspell aspell-en at
atrpms-kickstart audiofile audiofile-devel authconfig authconfig-gtk
autoconf autofs automake automake14 automake15 automake16 automake17 bash bc
bind-libs bind-utils binutils bison bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera-fonts
bluez-bluefw bluez-utils bzip2 bzip2-devel cdecl cdparanoia-devel
cdparanoia-libs chkfontpath comps-extras coreutils cpio cpp cracklib
cracklib-dicts crash crontabs cscope cups cups-devel cups-libs curl
curl-devel cvs cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain
dbus dbus-devel dbus-glib dbus-python dbus-x11 ddd dejagnu
desktop-file-utils desktop-printing dhclient dhcpv6_client dialog diffutils
diskdumputils docbook-dtds e2fsprogs-devel ed elinks emacs-common enscript
esound esound-devel ethereal expect fedora-release fetchmail findutils
firefox firstboot fontconfig fontconfig-devel fonts-xorg-100dpi
fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-base foomatic freeglut freetype freetype-devel
ftp gail gamin gamin-devel gawk gcc gcc-c++ gcc-java gd gd-devel gdb
gdbm-devel gdk-pixbuf gdm gettext gftp ghostscript ghostscript-fonts
glib2-devel glibc-devel glibc-headers glibc-kernheaders gmp-devel
gnome-keyring gnome-python2 gnome-python2-bonobo gnome-python2-canvas
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2 gnome-vfs2 gnupg gphoto2 gpm gpm-devel grep groff
grub gtk+ gtk2 gtkhtml2 guile gzip hal hal-cups-utils hotplug howl howl-libs
hpijs htdig htmlview httpd httpd-suexec icon-slicer iiimf-libs
iiimf-libs-devel imlib info initscripts intltool iproute ipsec-tools
iptables iptstate irda-utils isdn4k-utils jpackage-utils jwhois kbd kdbg
kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-devel kdegraphics kdegraphics-devel
kdelibs kdelibs-devel kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdenetwork-devel kdepim
kdepim-devel kdesdk kdesdk-devel kdeutils kdeutils-devel kdevelop kdewebdev
kernel#2.6.10-1.766_FC3 kernel#2.6.9-1.667 kernel-utils krb5-auth-dialog
krb5-devel krb5-libs krb5-workstation krbafs krbafs-devel kudzu less lftp
libIDL libart_lgpl-devel libbonobo libbonoboui libcroco libdbi-dbd-mysql
libgcj libgcj-devel libglade2 libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomecups
libgnomeprint22 libgnomeprintui22 libgnomeui libgsf libidn libidn-devel
libpcap libpng-devel librsvg2 libtermcap-devel libtool libungif
libungif-devel libusb-devel libuser libuser-devel libwnck libwvstreams
libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxslt libxslt-devel linuxwacom
lm_sensors lockdev lockdev-devel logrotate logwatch lvm2 lynx m4 make man
mdadm metacity mgetty minicom mkinitrd mod_auth_mysql module-init-tools
mtools mtr mutt mx mysql mysql-bench mysql-devel mysql-server nano nasm nc
ncftp ncurses ncurses-devel net-snmp net-tools netdump newt-devel nfs-utils
nscd nss_db nss_ldap ntp openjade openldap openldap-devel openmotif
openmotif-devel openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome
openssh-clients openssh-server openssl openssl-devel oprofile pam pam-devel
pam_ccreds pam_krb5 pango parted passwd patchutils pciutils pcmcia-cs
pcre-devel pdksh perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-DBD-MySQL perl-LDAP perl-XML-LibXML
perl-XML-LibXML-Common perl-XML-SAX php php-mysql php-pear pilot-link
pilot-link-devel pinfo pnm2ppa policycoreutils portmap ppp prelink procmail
procps psacct psmisc psutils pyOpenSSL pygtk2 pygtk2-libglade pyorbit python
python-devel python-ldap pyxf86config qt qt-MySQL qt-ODBC qt-designer
qt-devel quota readline readline-devel redhat-lsb redhat-rpm-config rhgb
rhn-applet rhnlib rhpl rp-pppoe rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python ruby
ruby-devel ruby-libs ruby-mode samba-client samba-common sane-backends
sane-backends-devel scrollkeeper sed selinux-policy-targeted sendmail
setools sgml-common shared-mime-info sip sip-devel slang-devel slocate slrn
sox startup-notification statserial stunnel sudo swig switchdesk synaptics
sysklogd sysreport system-config-date system-config-display
system-config-keyboard system-config-kickstart system-config-language
system-config-mouse system-config-network system-config-network-tui
system-config-packages system-config-printer system-config-printer-gui
system-config-rootpassword system-config-securitylevel
system-config-securitylevel-tui system-config-services
system-config-soundcard system-config-users system-logviewer talk tar tcl
tcpdump tcsh telnet texinfo time tmpwatch ttfprint ttmkfdir udev umb-scheme
unixODBC unzip up2date up2date-gnome urw-fonts usermode usermode-gtk
utempter util-linux vconfig vim-common vim-enhanced vim-minimal vixie-cron
vnc-server vte wget which wvdial xfsprogs xinetd xinitrc xloadimage
xml-common xmlsec1 xmlsec1-openssl xorg-x11 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU xorg-x11-deprecated-libs xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel
xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-libs xorg-x11-sdk xorg-x11-tools
xorg-x11-twm xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xdm xorg-x11-xfs xrestop xscreensaver
xsri xterm yp-tools ypbind yum
The following NEW packages will be installed:
elfutils-devel elfutils-libelf-devel
The following packages have been kept back
acl apr beecrypt boost boost-devel diffstat file flac glib2 glibc
glibc-common libacl libgcrypt libgpg-error libpng libpng10 libpng10-devel
libraw1394 libselinux libselinux-devel libtiff perl-HTML-Parser
perl-XML-Parser perl-XML-Twig pkgconfig popt redhat-menus rsh shadow-utils
slang wireless-tools zip zlib zlib-devel
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
bash initscripts gawk (due to initscripts) grep (due to initscripts) sed
(due to initscripts) fedora-release (due to initscripts) psmisc (due to
initscripts) iproute (due to initscripts) mkinitrd (due to initscripts)
coreutils (due to initscripts) procps (due to initscripts) SysVinit (due to
initscripts) udev (due to initscripts) kernel#2.6.10-1.766_FC3 (due to
initscripts) module-init-tools (due to initscripts) util-linux (due to
initscripts) net-tools (due to initscripts) sysklogd (due to initscripts)
kernel#2.6.9-1.667 pam cracklib (due to pam) cracklib-dicts (due to pam)
passwd libuser (due to passwd) rpm
6 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 481 removed and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 3837kB of archives.
After unpacking 1754MB disk space will be freed.
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