On 2/21/06, Robinson Tiemuqinke <hahaha_30k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm playing with FC4 toy now and have a stupid > question: normally any two different packages can not > share a regular file otherwise there will be a > confliction, but why these two packages > xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 and xorg-x11-libs.i386 can have > same files? > > Thanks a lot. > > [root@basement01 ~]# rpm -ql -v xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 | > grep zh_TW.big5 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 384 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/Compose > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 344 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/XI18N_OBJS > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9611 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/XLC_LOCALE > [root@basement01 ~]# rpm -ql -v xorg-x11-libs.i386 | > grep zh_TW.big5 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 384 Sep 21 > 16:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/Compose > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 344 Sep 21 > 16:18 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/XI18N_OBJS > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9611 Sep 21 > 16:17 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/XLC_LOCALE > [root@basement01 ~]# rpm - xorg-x11-libs.i386 | grep > zh_TW.big5 > [root@basement01 ~]# file > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/Compose > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5/Compose: ASCII > English text > [root@basement01 ~]# uname -a > Linux basement01.alexa.com 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 #1 Thu > Oct 20 01:28:35 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux Probably just an idiosyncrasy of a dual-arch system like x86_64. RPM doesn't seem to be confused: $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/zh_TW.big5 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.x86_64 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386 Both packages seem to share the file. With x86_64, you can have both i386 and x86_64 packages installed for certain packages (eg libraries, like your example). This is normal and is usually not a problem. There was a fiasco a while back with the 32-bit perl package being installed accidentally, which caused problems on update when it was removed. Basically, expect to see a lot of dual package sets like the above. I don't know how many share files, though. That was a new one on me : ). Jonathan
