generating 32-bit RPM's

[Dave Atkinson]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:07 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:12 +0100, Dave Atkinson wrote:
> ...
> > yum to install 32-bit mplayer (if anyone can explain to me a simple
> > way
> > of installing an arbitary 32-bit pkg on x86_64..? thx ;).
> > ...
> 
> Not exactly simple, but I manage it by creating i386 repo definitions
> that are disabled by default and enabling them with 
> "yum --enablerepo=reponame update <packages>" (or "install").  Works OK
> once you get the right set of 32-bit packages installed for browsers,
> etc.
> ...

Thanks for that, although it's dawned on me that

$ yum clean all
$ setarch i386 yum install <packages>
$ yum clean all

is probably what I need.  Seems to work, too... ;)