preupgrade to go from F9 i386 -> F10 x86_64 ?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Phil Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 15:11, Kevin J. Cummings  wrote:
>> David Timms wrote:
> 
>>> What file tells preupgrade what arch you are on ?
>> look at /etc/rpm/platform
> 
>>> DaveT.
>>>
> 
> 
> But is it possible to upgrade between different platforms? I always
> thought that one cannot change the platform after installing any
> OS....

I did it.  It took a little bot of clean up to identify the unneeded 
leftover .386 RPMs from the needed ones, but I did it.  YMMV.

> Cheers
> Phil Bieber

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