many non-lib dup binary pkgs of i[36]86 on x86_64 [Was: ipw3945 on f7t4]

[das]

--- dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> das wrote:
>
> >
> > thank you for getting all the extra stuff out of the way. hum, what to write bugs for...
> >
> > i was looking for iwlist pkg owner - so i could go find a debug pkg and get a backtrace.
> >
> > $ rpm -qf /sbin/iwlist
> > wireless-tools-28-2.fc7.i386
> > wireless-tools-28-2.fc7.x86_64
> >
> > why are both these archs installed? - humm
> >
> >  314/1352 pkgs are i386 or i686 (3 of which are i686)
> >  104/1352 pkgs are noarch
> >  933/1352 pkgs are x86_64
> >
> > and the last is gpg-pubkey-1ac70ce6-41bebeef.(none)
> >
> > metacity-devel-2.18.0-2.fc7.i386 - is the only non-duplicate of the i?86 pkgs, for all the
> others
> > there is a corresponding x86_64 pkg.
> >
> > is this news to anyone that there are so many 'duplicate' i386 pkgs on a x86_64 machine?
> >
> >   
> no this is ok; I asked on IRC they are multilib packages so you have a 
> i386 and a x86_64 one (to be able to run i386 software that links 
> against it)


created a bugzilla bug for this one against anaconda

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238693

das

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