a timely post i just sent to the RPM list, related to package names. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:54:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: RPM Package Manager <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Any way to erase just one RPM if multiple architectures exist? On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, John Caruso wrote: > At Tuesday 08:15 AM 7/19/2005, German Cancio wrote: > > > Am I missing some option that will allow this? > > > > try rpm -e <package>.<arch> eg. rpm -e vte.x86_64 - you can also specify > > the version number (rpm -e vte-0.11.11-6.x86_64) > > Thanks, that did it. Am I missing something, or is this completely > missing from the man page? Or in other words, where did you come > across this knowledge? I couldn't find it in the man page or with > Google. And it's not obvious...I knew you could use (e.g.) vte or > vte-<version>, of course, but I didn't have any reason to suspect > that adding .<arch> would work also. > > Seems like this info should find its way into the man page (again, > if I'm not just missing it), especially as 64-bit Redhat variants > become more popular. as far as the man page is concerned, there's a fairly loose definition of "PACKAGE_NAME" in terms of what you can use in various rpm commands. for instance, consider the "gimp" package on FC4. the binary rpm file is "gimp-2.2.7-4.i386.rpm". this allows you to use any of the following to, say, query for the existence of that package: $ rpm -q gimp $ rpm -q gimp-2.2.7 $ rpm -q gimp-2.2.7-4 $ rpm -q gimp-2.2.7.i386 $ rpm -q gimp.i386 that's probably worth a mention somewhere early on the man page. rday
