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

[Drew Leske]

Hi John,

Thanks for the advice.  I've already got the --resolvedeps flag but the two 
Compatibility install groups weren't in there.

Now on a clean install I get both flavours and am ready to go back to testing.

Thanks all!
Drew.

John Rothschild wrote:
> 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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