On 11/30/2012 09:13 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
From: Tony Molloy tony.molloy@ul.ie
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.
You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64.
JD
True, but i386/i686 packages are usually still only located in the 32bit repo directories...they're not usually intermingled in the actual download directories, last I checked.
It has been being done this way since x86_64 was first released by Red Hat ... See Fedora Core 1's x86_64 updates directory and search for i386. http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/x8...
They still do it that way in their latest release: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/
We have been doing it that way since our first release as well: http://vault.centos.org/3.1/updates/x86_64/RPMS/
It is just how multilib is done in Red Hat type distributions.
My apologies...I stand corrected.