[sles-beta] SLES11-SP3 RC1 question concerning zypper dist-upgrade when upgrading from SLES11-SP2, why additional 32bit libraries on a x86_64 bit server?

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

On Wed, May 01, urs.frey at post.ch wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am doing SLES11-SP3 upgrade testing from SLES11-SP2 x86_64 to SLES11-SP3 RC1 x86_64
> I installed SLES11-SP2 base pattern, to latest patch-update
> 
> When invoking zipper dist-upgrade, I can see that some new packages get installed. So far OK.
> What worries me, that there are new libraries-32 being installed.
> I mean, when having a pure x86_64 SLES11-SP2 64bit installation, why get 32bit libraries newly installed?

But you didn't had a pure x86_64 installation, as your zypper
output shows. So it is expected that the new gcc runtime dependencies
are fullfilled.

  Thorsten
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