Hi Clint,

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Clint Dilks wrote:

William R. Lorenz wrote:

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I have a freshly installed CentOS 5.3, x86_64 system -- just the Base package selection (via custom packages selection), and nothing else. Immediately after install (no updates), here's what's in the RPM db:

[root@dev ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i glib2 glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6 glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6 [root@dev ~]#

I have two questions about this:

(1) Should this package be listed in the RPM database twice? (2) Should it be listed there with the fc6 extension?

Any insights would be appreciated.

I am not sure why you are seeing the .fc6 extensions I currently see

[root@tempest ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i glib2 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.x86_64 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.i386

These are the packages installed after an update from the updates repo. Without updating a fresh install, it seems to have the .fc6 extensions. I'm haven't checked if this is a trickle-down from the upstream pkgs.

You are seeing the listing twice because one is the 32 bit version and the other is the 64 Bit version. By default on 64 Bit machines rpm does not use a query format that shows the arch tag

If you want to be clear about with version of a package you are looking at create /etc/rpm/macros

with an entry like %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

Of course you can use any valid query format you like.

Indeed, that works like a champ and shows both arch tags, thanks! :-)

I hope this helps :) I would also recommend you cat /etc/redhat-release and see that it looks like

CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

Yes, it is CentOS 5.3, the most recent.