Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine? (RHEL3)

[John Rothschild]

On RHEL  4, the following works.  I  haven't tested it on RHEL 3.

Add this to your packages section of your kickstart file.

%packages --resolvedeps

@Compatibility Arch Support
@Compatibility Arch Development Support

(I  got this information from a March 1 posting to this list.)

You can also do this via up2date.  You will need to use the  
undocumented --arch option to get the right version.  (--arch=i386  
(?) vice --arch=x86_64)   I  hope this helps.

		JR

On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Drew Leske wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of  
> Victoria
>   dleske at uvic.ca / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)
>
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