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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq