[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Wed Nov 25 06:49:31 UTC 2009


On 11/25/2009 01:32 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 19:30, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/24/2009 09:58 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:19:22PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>> So would this mean one disk with two "repositories" on it, or is
>>>>> everything
>>>>> mashed together all in one repository?
>>>> The current x86-64 has both 32-bit and 64-bit "mashed together," so
>>>> that
>>>> sort of configuration would be more of the same.
>>>
>>> Well, it's currently only half-mashed.
>>
>> In Fedora 12, the i686 and x86-64 rpms are in the same directory, on
>> the x86-64 DVD ISO.
>>
>> That's sufficiently mashed for my purposes, but whatever... :)

> Look closer. It is only a small subset of the i686 content in the x86_64
> repo for multilib purposes.

That's merely a space issue, not any failure to or absence of "mash"

	Jeff





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