On 03/09/16 15:20, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 03/09/2016 10:12 AM, g wrote:
>> in "closing the gate after the horses have left the corral", i am
>> asking is what i did good or bad.
>
> If you try to run a program and it doesn't run, then removing i686 might
> have been bad. Wine is definitely one that will pull in a long list of
> i686 dependencies.
>
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ok. i am rounding up the horses now. ;-)
reinstalled all the wine i686. i have only used wine about 5 times from
day of it's 'birth', but at least i now have 32 bit back if i ever need it.
> Generally what I recommend is this: If you install a package that you
> then decide you don't want, use "yum history undo" or "yum history
> rollback" to remove that package. Otherwise, just upgrade and don't
> look for things to remove. The amount of disk space used by packages
> you don't actively use is measured in cents. Your time is worth far more.
>
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for this one, went back over 'man yum', found;
history
The history command allows the user to view what has happened in
past transactions (assuming the history_record config. option is
set). You can use info/list/packages-list/packages-info/summary
to view what happened, undo/redo/rollback to act on that infor-
mation and new to start a new history file.
to check that history was enabled, ran 'grep' in /etc and /etc/yum/*, all
i found is;
yum]$ sudo grep history *
[sudo] password for geo:
aliases.conf:h history
aliases.conf:hi history info
aliases.conf:hl history list
aliases.conf:hs history summary
aliases.conf:hp history package-list
yum]$ sudo grep record *
grep: pluginconf.d: Is a directory
grep: protected.d: Is a directory
grep: vars: Is a directory
nothing to enable history_record. ran 'yum history', history showed
usage 7 thru 26, so no problem. should have done that to start with.
as for drive space, diff before and after removal was about 200M in a
14.7GB partition. so no, no advantage, other than a lot of the i686 was
also x86_64.
reason all this came about was trying to update the x86_64 nss-util and
yumex complained about the i686 nss-util.
as for rest, like you say, i will find out what i686 i need when i run
various progs.
another day in my life has been blessed with more learning and a bit
wiser.
Gordon, thank you for replying and your advice. much appreciated.
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peace out.
If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes...
...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it!
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