Re: Which processor mode?

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:54:33PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rick Johnson (rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > > Basically, for any 64-bit library package 'libfoo-1.2.3-1.x86_64.rpm',
> > > you can just install the 'libfoo-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm', and the Right Thing
> > > will happen.
> > > 
> > > So, you'd need the exact same name-version-release version of the x86
> > > glibc, XFree86-libs, etc.
> > 
> > Grabs Red Hat 9 release (plus errata) - rpm -ivh *lib*.i[3|6]86.rpm  -
> > would that work (in a nutshell)?
> 
> Assuming they're the exact same name-version-release (note, some of
> the packages are slightly different on AMD64 due to AMD64-specific
> fixes), that should work. I don't know that we've tested quite that
> scale, though. :)

At least for now you should definitely not try to install
e.g. gcc-*.i386.rpm (unlike the lib* subpackages, which can be installed
that way). That is because gcc-*.x86_64.rpm already contains some
32-bit and some 64-bit stuff in it, rpm arch coloring will need to
be overridden for gcc-* subpackages.

	Jakub