installing ppc and ppc64 packages together

[Marvin Heffler <heffler us ibm com>]

I'm running into a problem on my RHEL
4 system where up2date is failing on it and I am unable to get ppc and
ppc64 packages to install correctly using rpm. For example, if I try to
install glibc-2-3-4.2.19.ppc.rpm and glibc-2.3.4-2.19.ppc64.rpm it tells
me this:

# rpm -ivh glibc-2.3.4-2.19.ppc.rpm
glibc-2.3.4-2.19.ppc64.rpm
warning: package glibc = 2.3.4-2.19
was already added, replacing with glibc <= 2.3.4-2.19

When the system was first installed
I know it had both ppc and ppc64 versions of the package installed because
glibc was listed twice in the rpm query. However, now I am unable to get
the latest version of glibc to install for both ppc and ppc64. If I use
--force on the command line with one package or the other, it will get
installed, but the other version of the package will no longer appear in
the rpm database. This causes problems when trying to upgrade/install other
packages that have both ppc and ppc64 versions.

Hopefully, this is something many people
have seen before. I search through the archives for this mailing list,
but did not find a solution to the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Marvin Heffler
Linux Standard Base
IBM Linux Technology Center
11501 Burnet Road, Zip 902-5B012
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 838-0953    T/L 678-0953