Re: x86_64 Tao: yum fall back on i386 RPMs?

Pasi Pirhonen <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:07:53AM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
>> Hi.  I'm running Tao on an x86_64 system, and it's going well, but
>> when I want to install a new package, yum only sees the ones that are
>> x86_64 specific.
>
> So it should be. There is just minimum amount of ia32-stuff included to
> get openoffice working (among few other packages). 

One of the nice things about the AMD64 chips, though, is that you can
run the i386 stuff without problems.

>> For instance, when I tried to install lilo with "yum install lilo", it
>> came up as unavailable.  But I can download the i386 rpm and install
>> it with rpm.
>
> lilo doesn't even compile for x86-64 and it's not included with
> Tao/x86-64 at all.

The 32-bit lilo from the i386 Tao seems to work fine.  Maybe it should
be included.

-- 
  Ed L Cashin <[email protected]>