Re: generating 32-bit RPM's
Jonathan Berry <[email protected]>
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On 9/21/05, Joshua Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:59:08PM +0100, Dave Atkinson wrote: > > > $ yum clean all > > $ setarch i386 yum install <packages> > > $ yum clean all > > If I understand what you are trying to do, yum already does this: > > yum install package1.i386 package2.i386 > Yes, but that only works if package1.i386 and package2.i386 are in the x86_64 tree. Which is not the case for some programs of which you might want to install a 32-bit version. For instance, Firefox and Mozilla are only available as 64-bit packages in the x86_64 tree. I personally use the extra i386 repo approach with the arch hardcoded that Phil presented earlier. Jonathan -- amd64-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list