Re: reposync 32 bit repo on 64 bit host

James Antill <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:57:02 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ian Mortimer <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi
>
> On a 64 bit host reposync fetches only noarch packages for a 32 bit
> repository and ignores i386 and i686 packages.  The command is:
>
> reposync -a i386 -m -c centos-6.3-i386.conf -n \
> -r updates-mirror-6.3-i386 -p /centos/6.3/updates

 The problem is that 'i386' means i386 packages and below, but nothing
ships i386 anymore. What you probably want is i686 or athlon or
something, as the other poster said x86_64 will also work but it might
not be obvious why.

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James Antill -- [email protected]