are FC4 source RPMS for x86_64 and i386 different?
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Tue Jun 14 18:07:33 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:32 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> There are separate downloads for source RPMs for x86_64 and i386.
>
> As far as I could tell, the FC3 updates SRPMs were identical for the two
> architectures. This seems like a good thing, if it works.
>
> I use both architectures and would like the SRPMs, but hate wasting
> bandwidth and disk space.
>
> Are there important differences between the two packages of SRPMs?
> Should I download both?
>
> Should only one set of SRPMs be released? Perhaps with a small number
> of arch-specific SRPMS for those that don't work on all archs.
>
There are only differences in that not all packages are available for
all platforms, so a src.rpm dvd for x86_64 won't include a src.rpm for a
package that only is included with x86.
If you look at the ftp site, the SRPM directory in each arch is a
symlink to a single SRPM directory.
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