Please help me file this bug in the right place. I think it may be relevant to much more than just this base package. I'm just using parted as an example. On fresh x86_64 FC6, it installs both parted.i386 and parted.x86_64. My first question is why? There don't appear to be any dependencies on either specific arch. Although, I do understand that parted is a general good thing to have in Core. Why not just the 64-bit package? Rpm verify produces the usual annoying uselessness from multi-arch installs. What's interesting is no errors with the 64-bit package: # rpm -V parted.x86_64 ; echo $? 0 But loads of failures with the 32-bit package: # rpm -V parted.i386 S.5....T /sbin/parted S.5....T /sbin/partprobe .......T d /usr/share/info/parted.info.gz .......T /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T d /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz .......T d /usr/share/man/man8/partprobe.8.gz Silly and confusing how rpm on Fedora seems to give ownership of the same file to conflicting packages, but still allow them to be co-installed automatically from anaconda. Why does this happen for quite a number of FC6 packages? It renders rpm -V utterly useless due to extremely high noise to signal ratio. Anyways, that's not my bug. After removing just the 64-bit package (for "fun" just now), *very* wacky and curious results are found: # rpm -e parted.x86_64 # rpm -V parted.x86_64 ; echo $? 0 WTF? It still verifies clean. And check this: # rpm -V parted.i386 ; echo $? prelink: /sbin/parted: Could not find one of the dependencies prelink: /sbin/parted: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?....T /sbin/parted prelink: /sbin/partprobe: Could not find one of the dependencies prelink: /sbin/partprobe: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?....T /sbin/partprobe missing /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0 missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/API missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/AUTHORS missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/BUGS missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/COPYING missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/ChangeLog missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/FAT missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/NEWS missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/README missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/THANKS missing d /usr/share/doc/parted-1.8.0/TODO .......T d /usr/share/info/parted.info.gz missing /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo missing /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/parted.mo .......T d /usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz .......T d /usr/share/man/man8/partprobe.8.gz 1 See how I've removed the 64-bit package, but it still verifies clean. However, the 32-bit package now burps with even *more* drama. Is this a bug with rpm? Or am I missing something totally fundamental about the true value of new-and-improved Fedora Core and why we no longer need simple old techniques like relying on the verification of installed packages? Heck, if I want that, I go play with Ubuntu or FreeBSD...or Microsoft Windows. :-/ ../C
