x86_32 yum $basearch

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 20 18:52:25 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 08:45 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:20 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Which is why we shouldn't have i386 repos. We should switch
> > fedora-release to using $arch and an i586 repo which is a symlink to the
> > i686 repo. Then when we phase out i586 in F12, we just remove the i586
> > symlink. That way, if anyone wants to maintain a build of fedora for
> > i586 or lesser machines then they can do so in the i586 path using
> > $arch.
> 
> "i386" has always been our x86 offering. We haven't shipped an i386, let
> alone i486 kernel in many many years, so "i386" was already a misnomer.
> I have no plans to change the directory path for this release.
> 

okay, I was just trying to make the update process easier for when i586
support goes away entirely.

-sv





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