On Friday 30 November 2012 14:21:12 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Tony Molloy wrote:
Hi,
I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I found 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and updates/6/Packages directories.
I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the equivalent UK site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) and they both carried these packages also.
Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386 packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these packages.
no it's probably not repo pollution. try to google for multilib
for example: http://blog.nexcess.net/2012/07/19/64-bit-centos-installing-32-bit- packages/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks Nicolas, John.
These repos are for a bunch of 64 servers, the only one of which requires 32bit packages is the one that runs Oracle ;-)
I might as well leave them there, disk space is cheap.
Thanks again.
Tony