Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora

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Tom Horsley wrote:


Well, whatever undocumented crap it does that allows both i386 and
x86_64 rpms to install "the same" files (which are in fact obviously
different) is clearly a wart about the size of the titanic.

No, that's a feature and it lets you run packages that haven't been rebuilt for x86_64 and need 32 bit libraries (what, you have a single source for software?).

I'm talking far more insane stuff than that. Things like foobar.i386.rpm
and foobar.x86_64.rpm both being installed at the same time and both
"owning" the file /usr/bin/foobar when you can look at /usr/bin/foobar
and see that it is clearly an x86_64 executable and did not under
any circumstances come from foobar.i386.rpm.

This became far more obvious in FC6 when the default x86_64 install
seemed to also install every single version of the corresponding i386
package as well (libraries I can understand, but this is junk like
utility programs which couldn't possibly need to have a 32 bit version
installed).

Not sure what's wrong there, but I don't think it is inherent in yum or rpm. I have CentOS x86_64 installs that seem to have the right things except for the accidental inclusion of perl.i386 in the initial release.

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   Les Mikesell
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