Hello...

On Tue, October 17, 2006 8:04 am, Jay Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 07:55 -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote:
>> Hello...
>>
>>   In my RHEL5 testing, I've noticed a lot of i386 packages are included
>> with a x86_64 install.  I know some are there for compatibility, but the
>> number of packages seems like a build bug.  I would open a bug, but I am
>> not sure which component to use.
>>
>>   Or is that "just how it is"?
>
> We vastly increased the number of 32-bit packages we're shipping as part
> of the 64-bit distributions so I suspect this is "just how it is" now.
> Please do report any which you feel are wrong and we'll certainly sort
> that out.
>

>From a quick find through the tree (*) I would guess most packages that
contain the same binaries;  perl, subversion, etc.  Probably most
-devel.i386 packages; subversion-devel.i386 , mod_perl-devel.i386. 
device-mapper-1.02.09-1.0.RHEL5 ?  why a 32 bit device mapper?



(*)
 find Client/ Desktop/ Workstation/ | grep i386.rpm
 find Client/ Desktop/ Workstation/ | grep i386.rpm  | grep devel



> - jkt
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