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Pann,
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> This is a shiny new installation of SL4, with all errata installed via
> yum update:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux dyn-iab-163-187.dyn.columbia.edu 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Apr 19 18:06:07 CDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $
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> While asking myself some questions about what version of glibc was
> installed I first did:
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> $ rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.3.4-2
> glibc-2.3.4-2
> $
>
> Hmmm. So then I did:
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> $ rpm -qa | grep glibc
> glibc-headers-2.3.4-2
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
> glibc-common-2.3.4-2
> glibc-2.3.4-2
> glibc-2.3.4-2
> glibc-devel-2.3.4-2
> $
>
> So _everything_ isn't duplicated. A natural question was, how many
> duplicates are there?
>
> $ rpm -qa | wc --lines
> 789
> $ rpm -qa | sort | uniq -d | wc --lines
> 53
> $
>
> Can anybody tell me what's going on? Thanks.
One is for i386 and the other is for i686 .
Standard for Upstream vendor product(Redhat) .
If you want to see the arch each time you do a rpm -qa you can install the
optional SL_rpm_show_arch with
yum install SL_rpm_show_arch
-Connie Sieh
>
> BTW, I'm a long time Debian user, only an occasional RH user, so please
> forgive me if this is a silly question. FWIW, a quick google was no help.
>
> A related question. Does this line
>
> glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.87
>
> hint that the glibc rpm was built on a system running kernel-2.4? If so,
> should that matter to me?
>
> Cheers,
> Pann
>
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