Probs with RPM on Opteron with dual 32/64 bit libraries/deps?

[tweeks]

Hey all..

Trying to get a straight answer regarding (or documenting on) the
schitzophrenic design issue (or lack of functionality really) that RPM has
with regards to supporting BOTH 32bit and 64bit labraries on the same
archecture (e.g. Opteron in this case).

Examples of this bug surfacing, breaking packages, and thus keeping slowly
breaking the ability for up2date to actually keep the system patched:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130128

The phrase:
"Also there have been fixes to
rpm to deal with packages installing multiple binaries."

doesn't seem to be entirely accurate.  I hear that the "fixes" are going
in the RPMs themsleves in the form of pre/post install scripts to do file
sanity checks (sicne RPM can't seem to track it itself).

I try to view the apprent RPM bug #126853 at the root of this issue (?)
and I get:
You are not authorized to access bug #126853

I didn't KNOW that there were "restricted bugs" in GPL...

Comments?

Tweeks
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