On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 00:53 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >>> Am Mo, den 13.06.2005 schrieb Robin Mordasiewicz um 2:20: >>> >>>> I installed Centos3.4-x86_64 and I notice that I get duplicate packages. >>>> i.e. I also notice that the duplate packages exist on the cd install as >>>> well. >>>> >>>> [root at bayamo RPMS]# rpm -qa | grep pam_krb >>>> pam_krb5-1.73-1 >>>> pam_krb5-1.73-1 >>> >>> x86_64 and i386 package version. >>> >>> rpm -q pam_krb --qf '%{name} %{version} - %{arch}' >>> >>>> when I use apt after downloading from Dag's site it complains about >>>> duplicate packages after running apt-get update. >>>> >>>> I am missing something to get my x86_64 system to update with apt the same >>>> way i386 system does, Mebbe someone can provide a hint. >>> >>> Use yum - apt isn't multiarch capable. >>> >> I rewrote my kickstart files to use yum. >> and everything is working perfectly fine now. >> Can you comment on why apt does not support multiple architectures ? > > x86_64 chips can run both 32bit (i386) and 64bit (x86_64) programs, so > you might need to support both arches. > > Apt isn't written to be able to resolve multiple library arch > dependencies. > > All development on apt for rpm from Mandriva is stopped, the maintainers > are now doing SmartPM ( http://smartpm.org ). Not sure how well (or if) > SmartPM does multilib arches. > > That is why apt is not in the CentOS-4 base as a package manager and why > there is no x86_64 apt package (in CentOS extras) or x86_64 apt repo in > the tree. ( http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/apt/ ) :( thanks. too bad. I was growing fond of apt. I forgot what RPM-hell was. Is it just me or is yum not nearly as capable at sorting out dependencies across multiple repositories. I am using dag, dries, atrpms, and kde-redhat rpms and with apt on a i386 system I never had to manually do anything, but yum will just not sort things the same way.