Installing both x86_64 and i386 RPMS on a x86_64 system

[James Pearson]

I have my own internal customised installation tree for CentOS 4 that is
used for installs over NFS - I've added extra RPMS to my x86_64 distro
and updated comps.xml and re-generated the hdlist files.

This works fine in most cases - except when I have both x86_64 and i386
versions of the same RPM - only the x86_64 package gets installed (or if
there is only an i386 RPM, then this gets installed OK).

I know this works fine for x86_64/i386 RPMS that are part of the default
distro, so I'm obviously missing something somewhere ...

Anyone know how I make sure both x86_64 and i386 RPMS get installed?

Thanks

James Pearson

[Brian Long]

On 3/23/07, James Pearson  wrote:
> I have my own internal customised installation tree for CentOS 4 that is
> used for installs over NFS - I've added extra RPMS to my x86_64 distro
> and updated comps.xml and re-generated the hdlist files.
>
> This works fine in most cases - except when I have both x86_64 and i386
> versions of the same RPM - only the x86_64 package gets installed (or if
> there is only an i386 RPM, then this gets installed OK).
>
> I know this works fine for x86_64/i386 RPMS that are part of the default
> distro, so I'm obviously missing something somewhere ...
>
> Anyone know how I make sure both x86_64 and i386 RPMS get installed?

If you look at the original comps.xml from Red Hat, you'll see a few groups
are tagged with <biarchonly>true</biarchonly>.  Make sure you have a comps
group defined with all your biarch RPMs and the above tag included in the
definition.  For example, "Compatibility Arch Support" is a group in RHEL 3
that has the biarchonly tag.

/Brian/

[James Pearson]

Brian Long wrote:
> On 3/23/07, James Pearson  wrote:
> > I have my own internal customised installation tree for CentOS 4 that is
> > used for installs over NFS - I've added extra RPMS to my x86_64 distro
> > and updated comps.xml and re-generated the hdlist files.
> >
> > This works fine in most cases - except when I have both x86_64 and i386
> > versions of the same RPM - only the x86_64 package gets installed (or if
> > there is only an i386 RPM, then this gets installed OK).
> >
> > I know this works fine for x86_64/i386 RPMS that are part of the default
> > distro, so I'm obviously missing something somewhere ...
> >
> > Anyone know how I make sure both x86_64 and i386 RPMS get installed?
>
> If you look at the original comps.xml from Red Hat, you'll see a few groups
> are tagged with <biarchonly>true</biarchonly>.  Make sure you have a comps
> group defined with all your biarch RPMs and the above tag included in the
> definition.  For example, "Compatibility Arch Support" is a group in RHEL 3
> that has the biarchonly tag.

Thanks - that fixes it.

James Pearson