Hi, I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I found 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and updates/6/Packages directories. I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the equivalent UK site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) and they both carried these packages also. Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386 packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these packages. Thanks. Tony
Tony Molloy wrote:> > Hi, > > I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I found > 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and > updates/6/Packages directories. > > I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the equivalent UK > site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) and they both carried these packages > also. > > Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386 > packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these > packages. >no it's probably not repo pollution. try to google for multilib for example: http://blog.nexcess.net/2012/07/19/64-bit-centos-installing-32-bit-packages/
From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>> Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386 > packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these > packages.You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64. JD