On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 23:23 +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:14:03PM -0500, Vadim Nasardinov wrote: > > > 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, > > > > ... > > > > That's a little confusing. This breaks my mental model of how RPM is > > supposed to work. > > In what sense? > > Files/directories can be owned by multiple packages *if* they > are exactly the same (otherwise the packages would conflict). > This happened in the past for example with several XFree86-* > packages. Well, except for elf binaries. if they are binaries and two files would conflict and they are 32bit and 64bit package binaries they're checked to see which one is the compat type for that architecture and that type is kept for both packages. install only glibc.x86_64 on an opteron some time. then run: file /sbin/ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, statically linked, stripped then yum install glibc.i686 and run the same command. ldconfig will not be replaced. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
