While doing some test installs of sl5.5 I noticed that on an x86_64
machine we were pulling in:
kdegraphics-devel-3.5.4-15.el5_4.2.i386
kdepim-devel-3.5.4-6.el5.i386
while up to sl5.3 (I didn't test sl5.4) we only got the x86_64 versions.
Generally we like having both i386 and x86_64 versions of the -devel
packages on x86_64 but in this case the .i386 and .x86_64 packages seem to
have identical contents (ie just headers and directories)...
for i in kde{graphics,pim}-devel.{i386,x86_64}; do printf "%-25s " $i; rpm -qvl
$i | md5sum; rpm -V $i; done
kdegraphics-devel.i386 24654039a29d8c5a5377cd6bbdec63e9 -
kdegraphics-devel.x86_64 24654039a29d8c5a5377cd6bbdec63e9 -
kdepim-devel.i386 5bde45000b92ed850302838a04c0ed77 -
kdepim-devel.x86_64 5bde45000b92ed850302838a04c0ed77 -
for this pair why are both .i386 and .x86_64 packages available?
Clearly I can (and shortly will) exclude the .i386 versions from my
kickstart files, but I wondered about the history...
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