Alexx wrote:
During last update packets pidgin and libpurple were updated while "yum update"-ing
Is it a common and normal thing that both x86_64 and i386 arch rpms are installed during update? This not the first time.
Sort of ...
If the i386 items were installed before, then yes, they will be updated.
The x86_64 tree has x86_64 and i386 rpms in it, this is by design (of upstream). I personally like the Debian approach for this (make them totally separate distros and don't mix them).
There are some programs that are not available on x86_64 ... though in CentOS-5 there are less of them.
Java and Flash plugins for mozilla/firefox are some.
You can add this to your .rpmmacros (create it if it does not exist in your home directory):
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
Now you can use RPM to see which i[3,5,6]86 rpms are installed ... like this:
rpm -qa | grep 'i[3,5,6]86'
If you have x86_64 rpms for all these, you can remove the i[3,5,6]86 versions if you want to.
The bottom line, you can have both without problem ... though I don't normally do x86_64 on workstations.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes