| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx>
| It is even worse that this. As I prepared this message, I found a
| problem with too many ghostscripts:
|
| # rpm -qf --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' /usr/bin/gs
| ghostscript-8.15.3-4.fc6.i386
| ghostscript-8.15.3-4.fc6.x86_64
| ghostscript-8.15.4-1.fc6.x86_64
| ghostscript-8.15.4-1.fc6.i386
I found that about 25 more packages were curdled this way, i.e. that
the system thought two versions for the same arch were simultaneously
installed. I think that only kernel and gpg-pubkey packages allow
that in general.
This took a fair bit of manual intervention to "fix".
To find the problematic packages:
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}.%{arch}\n' |
egrep -v '^gpg-pubkey|^kernel\.x86_64|^kernel-xen\.x86_64' |
sort |
uniq -d |
xargs rpm -q --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'
For each of these packages, pick the version that is the latest (a
simple sort does not work because version numbers don't sort nicely).
Then find out where a copy of the .rpm resides and issue the command
like this:
rpm -U --replacepkgs http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/x86_64/xine-lib-1.1.6-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm
Some of the packages are intertwined with dependencies. If this
blocks the update command then you have to issue the command with
several packages at once. In fact, I issued all updates from Fedora
Core updates repo in a single command. This runs a risk of
overflowing the limit on shell command length.
I don't know if this fixed any observable problem.
==> this isn't something the Fedora project should expect users to do!
| Surprisingly, some packages that were installed in both i386 and
| x86_64 forms "shared" files that were different. This seems like a
| bug. And it gets "rpm --verify" upset. [This turns out to be wrong
| but it should be right. See later.] For example, two versions of
| ghostscript-8.15.4-1.fc6 are installed and they fight over the
| contents of /usr/bin/gs.
|
| ==> packages in a multiarch system that are meant to coexist should
| have only identical files at the same path.
More examples:
# rpm --verify --nomtime arts-1.5.6-0.1.fc6.i386
S.5..... /usr/bin/artscat
S.5..... /usr/bin/artsd
S.5..... /usr/bin/artsplay
S.5..... /usr/bin/artsrec
S.5..... /usr/bin/artsshell
S.5..... /usr/bin/artswrapper
# rpm --verify --nomtime evolution-data-server-1.8.3-6.fc6.i386
S.5..... /usr/libexec/camel-index-control-1.2
S.5..... /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2
S.5..... /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.8
# rpm --verify --nomtime kdelibs-3.5.6-0.3.fc6.i386
<lots of stuff>
# rpm --verify --nomtime mkinitrd-5.1.19.0.3-1.i386
S.5..... /sbin/grubby
# rpm --verify --nomtime cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.22-4.i386
S.5..... /usr/bin/sasl2-sample-client
S.5..... /usr/bin/sasl2-sample-server
S.5..... /usr/sbin/sasl2-shared-mechlist
S.5..... /usr/sbin/sasl2-static-mechlist
There are more but I won't bore you more by extending the list.
