thanks, that good to know, but I still maintain RHE3 and RHE4... :( On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Calimero <calimero...@evolutive.org> wrote:
> > > > On 5 août, 09:11, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to double check this, but from vague memory I remember that if you > > had one rpm that required a package, and if it didn't specify that it > > requires both archs, than it would end up installing the package + 64bit > lib > > only and not the 32bit libs. > > Indeed. We've had problems in CentOS 5.2 (don't remember the exact yum > version). > Installing "curl-dev" would install both 32/64 packages and we ended > with problems (using 32b libs when building 64b which obviously > failed). > > We then used yum's plugin "basearchonly". But with yum 3.2.19 that now > ships with CentOS 5.3 basearchonly seems deprecated/unsupported. But > there's a yum.conf option: multilib_policy=best > > " multilib_policy > Can be set to ’all’ or ’best’. All means install all > possible arches for any package you want to install. Therefore yum > install > foo will install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, > if it is available. Best means install the best arch for this > platform, > only." > > Looks like "all" was the default or previous behavior. And "best" > works like yum-basearchonly worked. > > Anyway we didn't experience any 32b/64b gotchas since we've set > multilib to "best". > > > Calimero > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
