[Samba] fedora x86_64 packaging questions

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Mark Nienberg wrote:

> On a Fedora Core 4 x86_64 system the following 
> packages are installed: (These are the official
> Fedora packages, not the samba.org fedora
> packages)
> 
> samba.x86_64
> samba-client.x86_64
> samba-common.x86_64
> samba-common.i386
> samba-swat.x86_64
> 
> Note that for samba-common, both the x86_64 and the i386 packages are
> installed.
> 
> Questions:
> Why does Fedora do this?
> Is it really necessary?

The samba-common.i386 will provide the 32bit nss and
pam libraries.  If you are using any 32bit applications
on your x86_64, then it does not matter.

You should be able to build i386 packages on x86_64 by
running "rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i386 <samba.src.rpm>"





cheers, jerry
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