<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rolf Gerrits</b> <<a href="mailto:rm.gerrits@quicknet.nl">rm.gerrits@quicknet.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sam Varshavchik wrote:<br><br>> Javier Perez writes:<br>><br>>><br>>> This is weird<br>>><br>>> So far, it looks like it is updating everything else properly, but I<br>>> wonder if these i368 stuff may conflict with the x86_64 libs
<br>><br>><br>> They won't, but that's beside the point. Something, somewhere, is<br>> still screwed up.<br>><br>> I nuked all i386 crap ages ago, and have kept FC 6 up to date for a<br>> long time now, and not once did anything in i386-land tried to sneak
<br>> back in. I can confirm that if all i386 stuff is properly removed,<br>> you'll never see it again.<br>><br>> Now, you have to be careful. When you zapped all the i386 packages,<br>> you should've taken some extra tender-loving-care to keep rpm happy.
<br>> Bug 223639 also gets triggered when removing an i386 package when an<br>> x86_64 package remains installed. I filed this bug against a slightly<br>> different situation, but it applies equally well to this case.
<br>><br>> Now, presumably, the last i386 package you ended up removing was<br>> glibc.i386. That's the last i386 arch rpm that gets nuked off, when<br>> you're cleaning out all 32 bit stuff on x86_64. All other i386
<br>> packages have a dependency on glibc.i386. Now, I did not see<br>> glibc.i386 in the list that you posted of packages that yum wanted to<br>> install. yum would not want to install those packages unless their
<br>> prerequisites -- of which glibc.i386 is certainly one -- are already<br>> installed.<br>><br>> So, I suspect that you still have both glibc.x86_64 and glibc.i386<br>> installed. I don't see how that would prompt yum into sucking down
<br>> more i386 crap, though, but, well, who knows.<br>><br>> So, I think that you need to fumigate your box even further, but you<br>> need to be careful doing that, keeping my bug in mind. After nuking<br>>
glibc.i386, you'll probably find that "rpm -V glibc" will complain<br>> that a crapload of locale files, man pages, and doc files will be<br>> missing. You'll need to reinstall the glibc.x86_64 to finish the
<br>> repair job, using "rpm -U --replacepkgs". And you 'ought to do the<br>> same for all other i386 packages that you nuked earlier; it's very<br>> likely that the act of removing them also blew away any locale files,
<br>> man pages, and doc files that should not've been removed because they<br>> were still owned by the x86_64 package.<br>><br>><br>I did a fresh install from the FC6 x86_64 20070111 spin DVD and got a
<br>massive amount of i386 besides the x86_64 that I was trying to install.<br>I got rid of the i386 stuf by ways of "yum remove *.i386" .<br>I did this in parts, like "a*.i386" plus its (i386)dependencies ......
<br>"b*.i386" plus its dependencies .... "c*.i386¨ ..etc.<br>That went fairly quick all together and I think fairly safe too.<br>I am now have x86_64 only rpm's installed.<br><br>note, that this was a fresh install ... no native i386 rpms were involved !!
<br>note also, that there might be some files / directories left behind as a<br>result of this..... but, I can live with that .<br><br>Rolf<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">
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<br>I got rid of all i386 again, at least it does not show on<br>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'|grep i386 <br>or in <br>yum list *.i386<br><br>Nothing shows as installed on my system.
<br><br>I will look on the config files, just to make sure nothing got lost.<br><br>Thanks!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>------------------------------<br> /\_/\ <br> |O O| <a href="mailto:pepebuho@pananet.com">pepebuho@pananet.com
</a><br> ~~~~ Javier Perez<br> ~~~~ While the night runs<br> ~~~~ toward the day...<br> m m Pepebuho watches <br> from his high perch.