Arnau,

 	yum install SL_rpm_show_arch

This will install a rpm that enables this.

-Connie Sieh

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Arnau Bria wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to see package's arch when doing rpm -qa. I though it
> was not possible, but when talking to other admin he sent me
> this output:
>
>> [root@wn060 ~]# rpm -qa | grep compat-gcc-34
>> compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4.x86_64
>> compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4.x86_64
>> compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.x86_64
>
>> [root@wn060 ~]# rpm --version
>> RPM version 4.4.2.3
>
>> [root@wn060 ~]# yum --version
>> 3.2.19
>
>> [root@wn060 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>> Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron)
>
> He does not know why he see that output.
>
> Now I'm on SL 5.3 but rpm does not show package arch:
>
> # rpm -qa|grep compat-gcc-34
> compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4
> compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4
> compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4
> compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4
> compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
> compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
>
> And I have same versions as him:
>
> [root@td006 ~]# rpm --version
> RPM version 4.4.2.3
> [root@td006 ~]# yum --version
> 3.2.19
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Scientific Linux SL release 5.3 (Boron)
>
> Anyone could help to get that output?
>
> rpm should do it with no other options specified... The reason for that
> is that we use puppet for configuring our nodes, and it uses rpm for
> querying packages installed. If rpm does not answer with arch rpm does
> not know if the package is 386 or 64 bits....
>
> TIA,
> Arnau
>