At Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:47:51 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Hello,

I noticed, that whenever I install a package on CentOS 5.x, rpms for multiple architectures are installed:

This is normal for a 64-bit Intel/AMD flavored system. You have both the 64-bit libraries and the 32-bit libraries. You *probably* should not have the devel packages for both 32-bit and 64-bit, but I am not sure if that is a problem or not.

yum install sqlite-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: centos.intergenia.de
• updates: centos.intergenia.de
• addons: centos.intergenia.de
• extras: centos.intergenia.de

base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package sqlite-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.6-2 set to be updated ---> Package sqlite-devel.i386 0:3.3.6-2 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: sqlite-devel x86_64 3.3.6-2 base 260 k sqlite-devel i386 3.3.6-2 base 260 k

Transaction Summary

Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 520 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): sqlite-devel-3.3.6 100% |=========================| 260 kB 00:01 (2/2): sqlite-devel-3.3.6 100% |=========================| 260 kB 00:01 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: sqlite-devel ######################### [1/2] Installing: sqlite-devel ######################### [2/2]

Installed: sqlite-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel.i386 0:3.3.6-2 Complete!

Thats pretty annoying, because an "rpm -qa | grep sqlite" only shows the package name, not the arch:

sqlite-3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2 sqlite-3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2

When I later want to remove rpms, I always have to mention both archs explicitly:

rpm -e sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386 rpm -e sqlite-3.3.6-2.x64_86

And sometimes packages have arch i686 as well.

You should not have both i686 and i386 packages for the same thing, but it is OK to have both i686 and x64_86 packages.

Or I get an error:

rpm -e sqlite error: "sqlite" specifies multiple packages

First I thought, that this might be an issue due to 32bit compatibility. But then I remembered, that I used CentOS 4 on 64bit, too, and there was no such problem.

How can I get rid of it?

Kind regard Marten _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos