30 Nov
2012
30 Nov
'12
3:21 p.m.
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/