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

[tweeks]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 16:28, tweeks wrote:
> > Hey all..
> 
> Hi Tweeks, small world (:

No Kidding!  Good to see you're involved here.. How many of these you on?

 
> > 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 (:  )

Actually.. I'm not writing here for Fedora... My main concern is for the
current behavior of RH-EL3 on the Opteron and maybe what will become EL4
(so.. maybe a little FC.. ;)


 
> 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.

Ahh.. see... why isn't this new RPM thing published somewhere?  Is there
an "Opteron Status" page or something that I should keep an eye on?  And
what version of RPM did this change happen in?

 
> > 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.

That's cool...

Let me know if there are any other RPM/up2date/Opteron areas that I should
be monitoring.

L8ER man..

Tweeks
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