Any way to delete just one RPM if multiple architectures e..

With 64-bit machines, it's often the case that there are two versions of
a given RPM--i386 and x86_64. But although rpm -e allows you to specify
"--allmatches" to remove all RPMs with a given name, there doesn't appear
to be any way to selectively delete just the RPM for one of the two
architectures while leaving the other one intact. This is as of RHEL4.

Am I missing some option that will let me do this?

- John

John Caruso <johnSPAMcarAWAYuso.DeleteThis@myprivacy.ca> wrote:
> With 64-bit machines, it's often the case that there are two versions of
> a given RPM--i386 and x86_64. But although rpm -e allows you to specify
> "--allmatches" to remove all RPMs with a given name, there doesn't appear
> to be any way to selectively delete just the RPM for one of the two
> architectures while leaving the other one intact. This is as of RHEL4.

I do not have RHEL4 to check that there but try

rpm -e this_package.i386

or

rpm -e this_package.x86_64

You most likely have 'yum'. Although yum will eventually use rpm
to perform actual delete operations something like

yum remove this_package.i386

will likely do, in general, a better job.

Michal