Hi,
I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I found
200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and
updates/6/Packages directories.
I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the equivalent UK
site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) and they both carried these pack
Tony Molloy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I found
> 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and
> updates/6/Packages directories.
>
> I checked with my rsync site ( ftp.heanet.ie ) and the equivalent UK
> site ( ftp.mirrorservice.org ) a
From: Tony Molloy
> Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386
> packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these
> packages.
You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64.
JD
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On Friday 30 November 2012 14:21:12 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just been checking my local copy of the CentOS repos. I
> > found 200+ i386/i686 packages in both the updates/5/RPMS and
> > updates/6/Packages directories.
> >
> > I checked with my rsync sit
> From: Tony Molloy
>
>> Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386
>> packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these
>> packages.
>
> You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64.
>
> JD
True, but i386/i686 packages are usually still only located in t
On 11/30/2012 09:13 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
>> From: Tony Molloy
>>
>>> Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386
>>> packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these
>>> packages.
>> You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64.
>>
>> JD
> True, but i386/
Mike Burger wrote on Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:13:10 -0500 (EST):
> True, but i386/i686 packages are usually still only located in the 32bit
> repo directories...they're not usually intermingled in the actual download
> directories, last I checked.
How many dozens of years did you "last check"? ;-)
rep
> On 11/30/2012 09:13 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
>>> From: Tony Molloy
>>>
Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386
packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these
packages.
>>> You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64.
>>>
>>> JD
>> True
On 11/30/2012 03:40 PM, Tony Molloy wrote:
> I might as well leave them there, disk space is cheap.
In case disk space is a problem, install hardlinkpy and run it on your
mirror directories.
I do that after each rsync.
Mogens
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