x86_32 yum $basearch
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 20 14:12:57 UTC 2009
seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:42 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Now that Fedora 11 x86_32 is going to be based on i586 packages rather
>> than i386 packages, does it follow that yum's $basearch will change from
>> i386 to i586 and hence repository directory layouts changing too, or
>> will it stay at i386?
>>
>
> I don't think it will change. For a few reasons:
>
> 1. non-fedora repos
> 2. non-fedora distros
> 3. this is why we also have $arch in addition to $basearch
>
> make sense?
Certainly from the point of view of being the least disruptive option;
it'll just look a bit strange having i386 "Everything" repos with no
i386 packages in them...
Paul.
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