> On 11/30/2012 09:13 AM, Mike Burger wrote: >>> From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> >>> >>>> 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. >>> You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64. >>> >>> JD >> True, but i386/i686 packages are usually still only located in the 32bit >> repo directories...they're not usually intermingled in the actual >> download >> directories, last I checked. >> > > It has been being done this way since x86_64 was first released by Red > Hat ... See Fedora Core 1's x86_64 updates directory and search for i386. > http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/x86_64/ > > They still do it that way in their latest release: > http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/ > > We have been doing it that way since our first release as well: > http://vault.centos.org/3.1/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ > > It is just how multilib is done in Red Hat type distributions. My apologies...I stand corrected. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1