Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine? (RHEL3)
Drew Leske
dleske at uvic.ca
Mon Jun 26 23:30:51 UTC 2006
Hi all,
We're using KickStart for clusters and Linux deployment in general, and for
the most part we are happy with this. Recently however we have acquired
some 64-bit machines to be added into our cluster and there are some issues
here.
We would like to make these resources available for 64-bit computing, and
have therefore installed primarily 64-bit libraries on them. However, most
of our users run 32-bit applications. At this point there is not enough
need for exclusively 64-bit machines, but I would like to make the platform
available.
According to a colleague there is a way with yum to specify that whenever
installing a package, a 32-bit version of the package, if available, will be
installed. I am not familiar with yum and am limited to RHEL3, up2date, and
rpm, but this is the functionality I am looking for.
I have looked at the documentation for KickStart (RHEL3 and RHEL4) as well
as browser this mailing list for information, and of course I've searched
the web--nada. Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle this?
Thanks,
Drew.
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