[CentOS] Re: X86_64, Groupinstall KDE fails

[Karanbir Singh]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Karanbir Singh spake the following on 4/17/2006 4:41 PM:
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>> Karanbir Singh spake the following on 4/17/2006 1:45 PM:
>>>> Benjamin Smith wrote:
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> What you wrote led me to a google search which resulted in this link:
>>>>> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-August/007269.html
>>>>>
>>>>> which had a line to do a yum exclude which allowed me to get it to
>>>>> fly. It's now going thru 171 packages.... w00T...
>>>>>
>>>> wait!
>>>>
>>>> dont just add that line in there, first make sure you yum erase all your
>>>> 32bit apps and rpm's ( yum erase *.i386 *.i586 *.i686 ), otherwise you
>>>> are going to leave behind a large number of orphaned rpm's.
>>>>
>>>> if you need those 32bit apps, consider just excluding the
>>>> fontconfig.i386 rpm. its a problem known since early 4.0 release days :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Or do rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig
>>>
>>>
>> are you sure this wont create any orphans ?
>>
>>
> It just removes the database entry for fontconfig. When you do the
> groupinstall, it will re-install fontconfig, and the database is back to normal.
> 

but which one ? i386 and x86_64 both have fontconfig pkgs, each of which 
is Arch specific - and expose different _libdir data.

because a couple of files overlap, does not mean the rest do as well!

--nodeps is a bad idea. dont use it.

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