RFE manpage does not describe how to erase a package from a specific architecture

[Jeff Johnson]

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[Ewald (ewald-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:

If you got for instance both the i386 and the x86_64 version of a package
installed, rpm -qa lists them both with the same name.
So how to proceed ifyou only want to deinstall the i386 version ?

It turns out that you can append the architecture after the package name,
ie:
[beekman@zero]$ rpm -q zlib
zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3
zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3

[beekman@zero]$ rpm -q zlib --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\n'
zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3-x86_64
zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3-i386

[beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib
error: "zlib" specifies multiple packages
[beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib.i386
[beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib.x86_64
[beekman@zero ~]# rpm -e --test --nodeps zlib-1.1.4-10.EL3.x86_64

this functionality should be added to the manpage.

[Florian (florian-redhat-bugs)]

This is more than a bit embarrassing... but RHEL5 has entered development stage 2 ruling RFE out for updates. I at least added the description to the man page in the upstream repository. Thanks for pointing out that this was missing.