Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine? (RHEL3)

[Coe, Colin C.]

Under RHEL3&4, this happens automatically.

For example, querying the RPM database for info on the 'glibc' package
gives:
rpm -q glibc --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n"
glibc 2.3.4 2.19 i686
glibc 2.3.4 2.19 x86_64

The 'up2date' utility will take care of this for you.

HTH

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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Drew Leske
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 7:31 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine?
(RHEL3)


Hi all,

We're using KickStart for clusters and Linux deployment in general, and
for 
the most part we are happy with this.  Recently however we have acquired

some 64-bit machines to be added into our cluster and there are some
issues 
here.

We would like to make these resources available for 64-bit computing,
and 
have therefore installed primarily 64-bit libraries on them.  However,
most 
of our users run 32-bit applications.  At this point there is not enough

need for exclusively 64-bit machines, but I would like to make the
platform 
available.

According to a colleague there is a way with yum to specify that
whenever 
installing a package, a 32-bit version of the package, if available,
will be 
installed.  I am not familiar with yum and am limited to RHEL3, up2date,
and 
rpm, but this is the functionality I am looking for.

I have looked at the documentation for KickStart (RHEL3 and RHEL4) as
well 
as browser this mailing list for information, and of course I've
searched 
the web--nada.  Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle
this?

Thanks,
Drew.

-- 
Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of
Victoria
   dleske at uvic.ca / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)

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