I run Centos 5.7 64 bit and I needed to install pcre so I did:
"yum install pcre"
and it installed the 32 bit version - pcre.i386.
Well I wanted the 64 bit so I went to remove the previous so I did what made sense:
"yum remove pcre"
All of a sudden yum went bonkers and started making all sorts of packages "set to be erased"
By the time I looked up it showed this:
Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================Remove 438 Package(s)
Reinstall 0 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
I interrupted it after 3-5 seconds or so of the "Running Transaction Test"
I then installed the 64 bit version via:
"yum install pcre.x86_64"
and it installed fine.
I don't believe anything was actually removed but I am not sure. My version of yum does not support the "history" function.
Anyone have any thoughts about this? Why would it install a package using "pcre" but then remove a whole bunch of stuff when removing "pcre". I understand that was a mistake and I should have entered the package name specifically, but holy cow that scared the crap out of me and I am still worried.
Any insight is appreciated.