Re: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: querying for i386 versus x86_64 versions, Marcin Krzysztof...:

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> I've noticed that on the 64-bit version of Fedora Core 4, when I query
> for certain packages, they show up twice. For example, and
> 	rpm -q samba-common
> shows that there are two copies of samba-common on the system:
> 	samba-common-3.0.14a
> 	samba-common-3.0.14a

04:56 PM dogbert ~$rpm -q glibc-devel
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19
04:56 PM dogbert ~$rpm -q glibc-devel.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19
04:56 PM dogbert ~$rpm -q glibc-devel.i386
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.19

> I guessed at the fact that one is an x86_64 version and the other is
> an i386 version, but I haven't been able to find a programmatic way
> of disambiguating this scenario. There don't seem to be flags to --query
> to provide this information, and it is not returned by --info.
>
> On a related note, how do you specify architecture requirements on the
> "Requires:" line? So that if I built my own version of samba, I could
> specify that it requires both
> 	samba-common-<myversion>.x86_64.rpm
> and
> 	samba-common-<myversion>.i386.rpm

Check the difference between

	rpm -q --provides glib-2.3.4-2.19.i686

vs.

	rpm -q --provides glib-2.3.4-2.19.x86_64

for ideas.

Tim
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