On 01/29/2008 08:15 PM, 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?
>

Yes and no.

The workaround here is to modify the packaging (spec file) to also create a *-common.noarch package which would contain the shared files for i386 and x86_64 (and remove those same files from the arch-dep pkgs). The arch-dep pkg should require the common.noarch pkg.

--Keith

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