At Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:56:39 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> --On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:00:48 AM +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic
> <office@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > RHEL/CentOS always installs both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries
>
> I disagree. I'm not sure what the algorithm is to select all-64
> vs mixed-32-64 on 64 bit platforms, but I've got a datapoint that
> disproves the generalization: My Thinkpad laptop had a fresh
> install of RHEL6 and it was (sufficiently) 64-bit pure that I had
> to later install lots of 32 bit libraries for some legacy applications.
> IIRC, that included glibc.
RHEL / CentOS through *5* installs both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries by
default. I guess starting with RHEL / CentOS *6*, they (Red Hat) are
going to 'pure' 64 bit on 64-bit machines...
>
> Devin
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