At Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:56:39 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:00:48 AM +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
RHEL/CentOS always installs both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries
I disagree. I'm not sure what the algorithm is to select all-64 vs mixed-32-64 on 64 bit platforms, but I've got a datapoint that disproves the generalization: My Thinkpad laptop had a fresh install of RHEL6 and it was (sufficiently) 64-bit pure that I had to later install lots of 32 bit libraries for some legacy applications. IIRC, that included glibc.
RHEL / CentOS through *5* installs both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries by default. I guess starting with RHEL / CentOS *6*, they (Red Hat) are going to 'pure' 64 bit on 64-bit machines...
Devin
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