On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:21:58AM +0100, Lance Davis wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote:
I also have another question which I will ask here.... it is about the x86_64 updates http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/
There are i386 updates in there. Are these required?
That is better answered by one of the x86_64 maintainers.
Yes they are required to keep the x86_64 and ix86 version in sync when you have _both_ versions of the same libs installed. ...mostly for 32 bits compatility requirements. If you are running 64 bits only, then you can ignore them.
They are the same as the i386 versions. If so, I end up downloading them multiple times which is a pain :(
They should be hardlinks to the i386 rpms - which rsync will respect as long as you use -H and only download once.
rsync is able to recognise the hard links -> no wasted disk space/bandwith
Cheers,
Tru