[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

[Jesse Keating]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:18, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>  
wrote:

> On 11/25/2009 03:26 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> So would this mean one disk with two "repositories" on it, or is
>>> everything
>>> mashed together all in one repository?
>>
>> it'd be easy to have two sets of repodata in two different dirs  
>> pointing
>> to the same set of pkgs.
>>
>
> On 11/25/2009 07:28 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Two repos, but with hardlinks.
>
> I doubt ISO9660 can deal with hardlinks, but I have to admit I've  
> never
> really tried (I did try once and gave up pretty quickly I recall).

It handles it just fine. We keep certain kernel files hardlinked on  
the DVDs when they are in different directories for different purposes.

>
> Also, the way I understand this works, you can just include x86_64
> packages in the one repository...
>
> When the system boots 32-bit (kernel, userland, etc, using syslinux
> 3.72+ ifcpu64.c32 which I have not yet been able to get to work yet)  
> the
> x86_64 packages won't show up in the available packages, 'cause of how
> YUM does something with a list of compatArchs, right?
>

The problem is when you boot 64bit. Not every 32bit package is  
suitable for multilib.
>

--
Jes