[Yum] Multiarch?

Joshua Jensen joshua at iwsp.com
Tue Jul 12 14:52:20 UTC 2005


This sounds right.  However if you specify packagename.arch you shuld
only get the package for that arch.

Joshua


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:05:18PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have recently aquired my first x86_64 machine onto which I have installed
> RHEL 4 and yum. For the most part it is working fine but I am courious if
> yum is behaving properly. 
> 
> If a package has both an i386 and x86_64 version yum is installing both of
> them. For example:
> (pocono pts16) # rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' cups-libs
> cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.6.i386.rpm
> cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.6.x86_64.rpm
> (pocono pts16) #
> 
> There are a bunch of these. Is this correct behavior and if so why?
> 
> (pocono pts16) # rpm -q yum
> yum-2.3.2-1.4.el4.mtd
> (pocono pts16) #
> 
> Yum itself is unmodified. I only add some custom config files.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
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