On Friday 30 November 2012 14:21:12 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Tony Molloy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I > > found 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and > > updates/6/Packages directories. > > > > I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the > > equivalent UK site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) and they both > > carried these packages also. > > > > Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have > > i386 packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I > > delete these packages. > > no it's probably not repo pollution. > try to google for multilib > > for example: > http://blog.nexcess.net/2012/07/19/64-bit-centos-installing-32-bit- > packages/ _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks Nicolas, John. These repos are for a bunch of 64 servers, the only one of which requires 32bit packages is the one that runs Oracle ;-) I might as well leave them there, disk space is cheap. Thanks again. Tony