On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 20:06, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
>
> Next I attempted to determine what package required the 386
> version of SAMBA:
>
> $ rpm -q --whatrequires samba.i386
> no package requires samba.i386
>
> Since it wasn't required...
>
> # rpm -e samba.i386
> # rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}.%{arch}\n' | grep samba
> samba-client-3.0.3.x86_64
> samba-swat-3.0.3.x86_64
> samba-3.0.3.x86_64
> samba-common-3.0.3.x86_64
> system-config-samba-1.2.9.noarch
>
> Then the yum update was successful :-)
>
> Maybe there was a time when an x86_64 version of samba wasn't
> available so the i386 version was loaded?
My guess is that it's there to support smb:// uri's for i386-only
packages like OpenOffice.org through gnome-vfs2 (which exists in both
i386 and x86_64 forms on FC2), which dlopen()'s the extension libraries
instead of linking to them -> thus no package requires it, it just
provides additional functionality if it's present.
- Panu -
