[Yum] Re: Multiarch?

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Jul 13 14:59:12 UTC 2005


On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Joshua Jensen wrote:

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

Ok then, what is the purpose for having 2 versions of the same package 
installed?? That is the part that does not make sense to me. Is there a doc
somewhere that explains this??

> 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.

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