[rhn-users] question about x86_64 rpm's

[Greg Forte]

Mark Maggelet wrote:
> Hi,
> My question is are the x86_64 rpm's supposed to be supplemental to the 
> i386 rpms or are they supposed to replace them. In other words when I do:
> 
> rpm -qa | grep glibc-devel
> 
> and get:
> 
> glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19.i386
> glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19.x86_64
> 
> Is this normal? Are these both supposed to be there?

In most cases, no, the x86_64 versino supersedes.  There do appear to be 
a few that are "doubled up" out of the box, and lots of 3rd party 
software still requires the 32-bit versions, so most likely that's how 
you ended up with that particular example.

-g