RPM oddness with FC2

[Mike McCarty]

I recently tried to install GCC for the MC68HC11.

First, I tried building from sources and installing.
The example given was hard to try, because a link to
the source to build was broken. But I cobbled together
what I could, and tried the example. It didn't work,
because of missing include files.

I deleted the stuff which the install put into /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/lib/... etc. and started over.

I pulled the RPMs from the website, and did the install.
The RPMs put files into /usr/bin and /usr/lib/... etc
I tried it, and had exactly the same problems I had with
the build from source.

I decided to uninstall. But then I hit some problems. Here is
the current behavior of rpm, which I find confusing.

# rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed
# rpm -i newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
        package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1 is already installed
# rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed
# rpm --rebuilddb
    [a few minutes of disc activity here]
# rpm -i newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
        package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1 is already installed
# rpm -e newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
error: package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed
# rpm -q newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm is not installed
# rpm -i newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1.i586.rpm
        package newlib-68hc1x-1.12.0-3.0.1 is already installed
# rpm -q --dump -p binutils-68hc1x-2.15-3.0.1.i586.rpm
/usr/bin 4096 1116148412 00000000000000000000000000000000 040555 root 
root 0 0 0 X
/usr/bin/m6811-elf-addr2line 294136 1116148412 
757d013b6f7feb3309408174f1337981 0100555 root root 0 0 0 X
    [rest snipped]
# ls -l /usr/bin/m6811-elf-addr2line
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 299632 May 15 04:13 /usr/bin/m6811-elf-addr2line

So I'm confused. Can anyone explain this behavior, and give me
advice on what to do?

Mike

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