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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