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Re: rpm -q inconsistency
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:51:08 -0600
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Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, John Rowe wrote:
> 
>> I have three x86_64 machines all running SL4.1. On two of them rpm -q
>> gives me the architecture, on the other it doesn't:
>>
>> goodhost# rpm -q xorg-x11-libs
>> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16.i386
>>
>> badhost#  rpm -q xorg-x11-libs
>> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16
>> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16
>>
>> (rpm -qa does the same.)
>>
>> This is an immense pain because, as you can see above, I have a number
>> of library packages in both i386 and x86_64 formats and I need a
>> reliable way of knowing what is installed on my system.
>>
>> Any idea how I can persuade rpm to behave nicely? Both are running RPM
>> version 4.3.3.
> 
> 
> Install the SL_rpm_show_arch tweek package on badhost as well.
> 

   yum install SL_rpm_show_arch

Troy
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