EMT64 SMP Test

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Thu Oct 28 19:23:28 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:21 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:16 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > scatterbrain> alias rpmwhat
> > rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n'
> > scatterbrain> rpmwhat hal
> > hal-0.4.0-5.i386.rpm
> > hal-0.4.0-5.x86_64.rpm
> > scatterbrain>
> 
> If there is some i386-only package that depends on hal, and you've got
> that package installed, then you're going to get two copies of HAL, one
> for each arch.
> 
> For example, since openoffice.org isn't 64-bit yet, and since it links
> to GTK, you're going to have both an x86_64 and an i386 GTK installed in
> parallel.  Welcome to multilib :)
> 
> Dan
> 

Thanks. That makes sense. I was thinking that I might have mis-clicked
during the install and essentially installed both 32 and 64bit versions
of everything. (Is that possible?) I did go for all compatibility
options.

tjb
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