On Friday 31 December 2004 01:45, John Lau wrote:
> I am using RedHat WS3 on a EM64T. And I found that it installs both
> x86_64 and i386 rpms of some softwares, in order to provide the
> compatibility of running i386 application on EM64T.
I'm a little confused by this whole duplicate RPM business as well. I
recently installed FC3 on a new AMD64 machine. I noticed that some
RPMs were installed in duplicate. For example,
| $ rpm -q --qf '%{name} %{arch}\n' GConf2
| GConf2 i386
| GConf2 x86_64
Now the funny thing -- as you mention -- is that some files are owned
by both of these two RPMs. For example, the above GConf2 packages
have 166 files between the two of them:
| $ rpm -ql GConf2 | wc -l
| 166
But only 89 of them are unique, while 77 files are owned by both
"GConf2 i386" and "GConf2 x86_64":
| $ rpm -ql GConf2 | sort | uniq | wc -l
| 89
| $ rpm -ql GConf2 | sort | uniq -d | wc -l
| 77
For example:
| $ rpm -ql GConf2 | sort | uniq -d | head -n 2
| /etc/gconf/2
| /etc/gconf/2/path
| $ rpm -qf /etc/gconf/2/path
| GConf2-2.8.1-1
| GConf2-2.8.1-1
That's a little confusing. This breaks my mental model of how RPM is
supposed to work.
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