Probs with RPM on Opteron with dual 32/64 bit libraries/deps?

[Jesse Keating]

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On Monday 30 August 2004 16:28, tweeks wrote:
> Hey all..

Hi Tweeks, small world (:

> Trying to get a straight answer regarding (or documenting on) the
> schitzophrenic design issue (or lack of functionality really) that RPM
> has with regards to supporting BOTH 32bit and 64bit labraries on the
> same archecture (e.g. Opteron in this case).

Heh, I think I know why you're writing this.  Since my home PC is x86_64 
and I use FC2 x86_64, I'd be more than happy to answer some platform 
questions  you may have.  (I'll even do these for free this time (:  )

> Examples of this bug surfacing, breaking packages, and thus keeping
> slowly breaking the ability for up2date to actually keep the system
> patched: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130128
> The phrase:
> "Also there have been fixes to
> rpm to deal with packages installing multiple binaries."
>
> doesn't seem to be entirely accurate.  I hear that the "fixes" are going
> in the RPMs themsleves in the form of pre/post install scripts to do
> file sanity checks (sicne RPM can't seem to track it itself).

Actually there is more than that.  RPM now takes arch as a variable when 
looking at packages.  EG:  rpm -q glibc.i686 is different from rpm -q 
glibc.x86_64.  Same goes for rpm -e and all other things.

> I try to view the apprent RPM bug #126853 at the root of this issue (?)
> and I get:
> You are not authorized to access bug #126853
> I didn't KNOW that there were "restricted bugs" in GPL...

If the bug has sensitive vendor information, or is a security related bug, 
it can be closed to external viewing until such time the issue can be made 
public or the security matter is made public.  It wouldn't do to have a 
public bug on a potential exploit that VendorSec is trying to give other 
vendors a chance to fix before announcing it.

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