17 Aug
2009
17 Aug
'09
3:57 p.m.
Chuck wrote: ...
Just curious, why are the 2 identically named packages? Is this just an oversight/bug on CentOS's part or does it serve some purpose?
As pointed out elsewhere, it is likely that you are on x86_64 and have both i386 and x86_64 packages installed. This may be a "misfeature" but it is not attributable to CentOS, rather to Red Hat, and is the normal behavior. I like to define an rpm macro to work around it:
[root@poq1 ~]# cat ~/.rpmmacros # Change default RPM query format to show ARCH %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch} [root@poq1 ~]# rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.x86_64 firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386
Phil