Thanks Colin. I had noticed that some libraries are installed for both, but
some definitely are not. One specific example is libGLU, provided by the
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU package.
[root]# rpm -q glibc --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n"
glibc 2.3.2 95.39 i686
glibc 2.3.2 95.39 x86_64
[root]# rpm -q XFree86-Mesa-libGLU --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION}
%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n"
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU 4.3.0 98.EL x86_64
Believe it or not our users require X libraries to run their numerical
analysis (on non-interactive machines). I wonder if only the 64-bit libGLU
is provided because nobody saw a need to have both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of X available.
Can you suggest a way around this? At this point it looks like I'll have to
take care of this manually or script up my own solution--if the two flavours
can even co-exist for some of these packages.
Thanks,
Drew.
Coe, Colin C. wrote:
Under RHEL3&4, this happens automatically.
For example, querying the RPM database for info on the 'glibc' package
gives:
rpm -q glibc --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n"
glibc 2.3.4 2.19 i686
glibc 2.3.4 2.19 x86_64
The 'up2date' utility will take care of this for you.
HTH
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From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Drew Leske
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 7:31 AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine?
(RHEL3)
Hi all,
We're using KickStart for clusters and Linux deployment in general, and
for
the most part we are happy with this. Recently however we have acquired
some 64-bit machines to be added into our cluster and there are some
issues
here.
We would like to make these resources available for 64-bit computing,
and
have therefore installed primarily 64-bit libraries on them. However,
most
of our users run 32-bit applications. At this point there is not enough
need for exclusively 64-bit machines, but I would like to make the
platform
available.
According to a colleague there is a way with yum to specify that
whenever
installing a package, a 32-bit version of the package, if available,
will be
installed. I am not familiar with yum and am limited to RHEL3, up2date,
and
rpm, but this is the functionality I am looking for.
I have looked at the documentation for KickStart (RHEL3 and RHEL4) as
well
as browser this mailing list for information, and of course I've
searched
the web--nada. Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle
this?
Thanks,
Drew.
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