generating 32-bit RPM's

[Jonathan Berry]

On 9/21/05, Joshua Jensen <joshua at iwsp.com> 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