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
> $
> 
> While asking myself some questions about what version of glibc was
> installed I first did:
> 
> $ rpm -q glibc
> glibc-2.3.4-2
> glibc-2.3.4-2

> $
> 
> Hmmm. So then I did:
> 
> $ 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
>