Jim Perrin wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 7:57 AM, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz> wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have installed Centos 5.1 on 64 bit servers, and I see some of the >> packages have been installed two times, >> one for i386 and one for 64 bits. I don't know why i386 packages can be >> installed on 64 bit machine and why they >> should come together, even some times when I am searching yum repository >> , I see i386 and x64 >> packages. shouldn't the search result depend on server architecture ? > > For pure environments, yes. However there's an exceptionally large > number of folks who want to run 32bit applications on 64bit systems. > For this to work, some 32bit packages are required, which is why > you're seeing what you're seeing. > I would also like to point out that we just copy which i[3,6]86 RPMS that the upstream people put into the x86_64 tree to make the filelists the same as upstream. While I personally would rather have them separate, our GOAL is to provide an experience that is as close as possible to upstream ... SO :-) Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080207/a44bb490/attachment-0005.sig>