Akemi Yagi (a...@gmail.com)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, German Andres Pulido Franco
<gpulido@gtscolombia.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have some servers, all running centos 5.2 x64 with current updates. None of
> the servers has installed packages that are not part of the centos regular
> packages. They were installed using the "server" packages at install,
> therefore there is no X server, GNOME, KDE or any other non-server stuff.
> However, I recently noted that the servers have the x64 _and_ the i386
> versions of some packages installed, for instance: krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.1
> and pam_krb5-2.2.14-1.el5_2.1. My question is: If I have no 32 bits software
> installed on these machines, why are such libraries installed? and can they be
> safely removed from the servers?

There is a known issue with yum.  See, for example,

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002961.html
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-July/060236.html

At any rate, you want to remove all *.i?86 packages and then add this line:

exclude=*.i386 *.i686

in /etc/yum.conf to maintain a pure 64-bit system.

Akemi

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM,  <clemens@dwf.com> wrote:
> OK, perhaps I wasnt clear in my previous posting.
> I am looking for either a SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centos.plus kernel,
> or more likely, a diff from the kernel at kernel.org.

The SRPM for the CentOS 5.2 centosplus kernel can be found here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus/SRPMS/

Akemi

Which options do you need to add?  Try making a request at
bugs.centos.org .  They might be added to the centosplus kernel upon
the next update.

If you really wish to build your own, then refer to this guide:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

Akemi

OK, that long thread caused a headache for someone (can't tell you
who), so I'm going to give you a shortcut.

Run the command:

rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 != 1 {
print $2 }' | sort

If the output shows anything other than gpg-pubkey or kernel*, then
your rpm database is most likely broken.  Go to #45 of that thread.
The OP nicely summarized the procedure to fix it.

Akemi / toracat

Glad to learn, Mark, that you've got audacity working.  Now, if you
like me ( :-D ), perhaps you could do me a big favor?  Would you mind
posting your note with a bit of details (like couple of other libs) to
that CentOS forum thread?  This will in turn help other users who get
to the thread through search engines.

Akemi