What are RPM file colors? When building a package rpm will tag each file within the package with a file color. Usually the file color will fit into one of four categories as described by Jeff Johnson here. These categories are:\ 0 is unknown or other 1 is Elf32 2 is Elf64 3 is (contains) both So why does rpm do this? The short answer is “for multilib support”. Basically so we can install both the 32bit and 64bit version of a package on the system and have some hopes of everything still wo...
