 | | | Update 3 on EM64T: Duplicate packages | Update 3 on EM64T: Duplicate packages 2004-11-29 - By Guy Waugh
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Hi there,
I have built a few Xeon servers with RHEL3 over the past year, and we
recently purchased a couple of machines with EM64T processors.
I downloaded the ISOs for RHEL3 Update 3 for AMD64/EM64T and my
colleague installed it on one of the new servers.
When I do an 'rpm -qa|sort|less ', the following packages appear twice:
cracklib-2.7-22
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.12
db4-4.1.25-8
expat-1.95.5-6
fontconfig-2.2.1-13
freetype-2.1.4-4.0
gdbm-1.8.0-20
glib-1.2.10-11.1
glibc-2.3.2-95.27
gpm-1.19.3-27.2
krb5-libs-1.2.7-28
krbafs-1.1.1-11
laus-libs-0.1-65RHEL3
libacl-2.2.3-1
libattr-2.2.0-1
libcap-1.10-15.1
libgcc-3.2.3-42
libgcj-3.2.3-42
libjpeg-6b-30
libobjc-3.2.3-42
libpng-1.2.2-25
libstdc++-3.2.3-42
libtermcap-2.0.8-35
libtiff-3.5.7-13
ncurses-5.3-9.3
openssl-0.9.7a-33.12
pam-0.75-58
pam_krb5-1.73-1
pam_smb-1.1.7-1
popt-1.8.2-10
readline-4.3-5.2
redhat-lsb-1.3-3
tcl-8.3.5-92.2
tk-8.3.5-92.2
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-68.EL
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-68.EL
zlib-1.1.4-8.1
It would appear that these twice-appearing packages have both the x86_64
and i386 RPMs installed. Packages that appear only once when doing 'rpm
-qa ' are the x86_64 versions.
Can anyone verify that this happens by design, or do we have a bad
install? If it is by design, what implications does that have for
package management (i.e. removing/upgrading/installing packages)? How
does one determine which packages need both the x86_64 and i386
versions? How does one address a particular package (e.g. the x86_64 one
as opposed to the i386 one) when upgrading/installing/removing? Is this
stuff documented anywhere?
Thanks in advance,
Guy.
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