Afternoon all,
Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing a 'yum update'
cups-libs i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18 update 107 k cups-libs x86_64 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18 update 112 k
I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into /etc/yum.conf?
- sf
On 5/8/07, Steve Finkelstein sf@stevefink.net wrote:
Afternoon all,
Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing a 'yum update'
This is the multi-arch support, so you can use x86 applications on x86_64 systems.
I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into /etc/yum.conf?
You can if you like.
And having both packages on the system won't necessarily break anything?
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/8/07, Steve Finkelstein sf@stevefink.net wrote:
Afternoon all,
Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing a 'yum update'
This is the multi-arch support, so you can use x86 applications on x86_64 systems.
I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into /etc/yum.conf?
You can if you like.
On 5/8/07, Steve Finkelstein sf@stevefink.net wrote:
And having both packages on the system won't necessarily break anything?
It's not supposed to, no. The only time this usually becomes an issue is if you're building software. Then you have to control the environment a bit more.
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Jim Perrin -
Steve Finkelstein