[WBEL-devel] About the arch of RHEL3 update srpms

Milan Kerslager milan.kerslager@pslib.cz
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:25:43 +0100


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:54:40PM +0800, Xu Hao wrote:
> Look at this list of some RHEL3 update srpms :
> 
> srpm file name : package name | arch
> 
> comps-3AS-0.20040113.src.rpm : comps | ppc
> comps-3ES-0.20040113.src.rpm : comps | i386
> comps-3WS-0.20040113.src.rpm : comps | i386
> redhat-release-3AS-10.src.rpm : redhat-release | s390
> redhat-release-3AS-11.src.rpm : redhat-release | s390x
> redhat-release-3AS-12.src.rpm : redhat-release | x86_64
> redhat-release-3AS-7.src.rpm : redhat-release | i386
> redhat-release-3AS-8.src.rpm : redhat-release | ia64
> redhat-release-3AS-9.src.rpm : redhat-release | ppc
> redhat-release-3ES-7.src.rpm : redhat-release | i386
> redhat-release-3WS-12.src.rpm : redhat-release | x86_64
> redhat-release-3WS-7.src.rpm : redhat-release | i386
> redhat-release-3WS-8.src.rpm : redhat-release | ia64
> 
> Sorry for stupidity, but what's the difference between i386 srpm and
> x86_64 srpm?

i386 is for 32 bit CPU (Intel Pentium, AMD Athlon/Duron)
x86_64 is for AMD 64 bit CPU

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