sharing yum caches i386/x86_64

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Sep 25 02:00:32 UTC 2006


At 9:28 PM +0200 9/24/06, ronald wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>>At 5:49 AM +0200 9/23/06, ronald wrote:
>>>hello
>>>
>>>is it possible to *join/mix* the yum caches from an i386- and an
>>>x86_64- installation (same release) and to update the i386 parts
>>>from that via yum update ?
>>>
>>>maybe with a respective yum clean metadata before ?
>>
>>You just asked this.  Copy the packages to a single directory and
>>use createrepo to make a repository from them.
>
>thanks, this is a possibility, also.
>
>but the more i'm playing with fc6 x86_64 the merrier i realize how
>slow fc5 i386 is...
  ...

FC5 x86 and x64 are about the same speed.  If one is slow, it is not 
set up properly.
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