[Spacewalk-list] i386 vs. x86_64

[Kennedy, Ryan]

OK, that does make sense.  I just found it odd that the i386 versions weren't listed in the updates for about 3 weeks and the x86_64 versions were, and then all of a sudden the i386 versions just seemingly appeared out of thin air.

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James Hogarth
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] i386 vs. x86_64

On 2 February 2010 17:06, Kennedy, Ryan <rkennedy at paml.com> wrote:
> I set up my channels to all use x86_64 and I have a system or two I kickstarted using those channels.  Initially it showed about 15 packages that needed updated and all of them were x86_64, but just the other day (seemingly out of the blue) that number more than doubled and now I am seeing both i386 and x86_64 versions listed as needing to be updated on the client.  I can see that my local satellite repo on my spacewalk server has both i386 and x86_64 versions of the packages in question which seems a bit odd considering my channels/repos are all set to x86_64 for architecture.  Can anyone set me straight on this?  It is puzzling to me why it would only show x86_64 packages in the updates for several weeks and then all of a sudden show i386 version of the same packages as well.
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64bit Centos machines by default will have a selection of 32bit
packages as well (mostly libraries) for compatibility... depending on
your environment you may not need these. My systems, for example, just
have @base which includes a few i386 packages but specifically firefox
x86_64 from the mharris repo.... You will also find noarch for some
bits in your x86_64 channel.

James

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