Hello,

I'm still playing with installation of i386 libs over a
x86_64 SL (3.02).

I tested some i386 installations using 'rpm', but it
seems that this 'rpm' does not support it well.
It accepts to install the i386 RPMs but do not
protects original files from the x86_64 RPMs.

I finally get a system with some binaries replaced
by i386 versions (for RPMs that give binaries
AND libraries). In addition the %post does not
take care of this particular situation.

How does this situation is handled on RHEL3 ?

By the way, I made a little script that extract all
the libs from the i386 RPMs and install them
properly on the x86_64 system. The result is fine
(all the i386 binaries I tried work well and found
all the needed i386 libs).
It is a "proof of concept", but it is an 'ugly' way to
do the things as these i386 libs are not referenced
by 'rpm' database and so will not be updatable
(instead by the hand).

We are not using yum, but in my memory, it was
possible with 'rpm' on RHEL3...