Troels Arvin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On an x86_64 system, I have removed a bunch of irrelevant i386-packages,
> such as apr.i386, but kept apr.x86_64. However, now "rpm -V apr" reports:
>
> missing   /usr/share/doc/apr-1.2.7
> missing  d /usr/share/doc/apr-1.2.7/CHANGES
> missing  d /usr/share/doc/apr-1.2.7/LICENSE
> missing  d /usr/share/doc/apr-1.2.7/NOTICE
>
> The same phenomenon applies to a great number of other packages on the
> system where the installer chose to install both i386 and x86_64 versions
> initially (but where I've since removed the i386 version).
>
> Is there a way to remove a package such that RPM doesn't remove files
> with this kind of shared ownership?
>
Well, it looks to me like a fairly serious bug.

It happens on F8 too, and may go to explain the occasional missing man page.



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