[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 23:16:31 UTC 2009
James Antill (james at fedoraproject.org) said:
> ...on the upside IIRC notting tried the 64bit kernel with 32bit
> userspace for F11, and had a single line patch (to rpmUtils.arch) to
> make yum happy.
A single line patch which *everyone* hated., as it essentially keyed off
the wordsize of the python you were running. The problem is that if you
do 32-on-64, at the first instance yum substitutes in x86_64 for your
base arch, and then you magically change into a 64-on-64 system.
Bill
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