Installing RealPlayer on FC+FE devel x86_64

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le samedi 29 octobre 2005 à 09:55 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
> > - This is where I spent most of the time, trying to figure out why yum
> > didn't want to pull them. Why but WHY don't livna and FE provide
> > arch-specific mirrorlists. And WHY can't yum look up in x86_64 AND i386
> > when presented a generic mirrorlist. (deep anguish, wanted to murder
> > someone when I realised that's why everything was failing). Yum ONLY
> > searches in x86_64 when you use the default mirrorlists, you have to
> > create separate livna and FE entries without any mirrorlist and only the
> > i386 baseurl to make it work. This of course sucks for the root server,
> > but at this point I was past caring about being nice.
> > 
> 
> So you really think it's a good idea for yum to automatically add
> repositories for i386 if you're on an x86_64? People complain about
> their being too many i386 binaries in the x86_64 tree as is - and you
> think having yum default to adding more is going to be helpful?

Much as I'd love to have a pure 64bit system today it's not possible now
(which BTW is the whole point of multilib). Now if i386 is considered
harmful could we at least have arch-specific mirrorlists ? Or a yum
switch to activate them ? Even i386 firefox deps are not fully provided
by x86_64 rawhide.

> and the reason why using the mirrorlists fail is b/c the mirrorlists use
> the $ARCH variable which expands out to whatever your arch is on the
> local system.

This is what I realised (after much pain). I doubt I'm the only one in
trouble. Just the first to report it.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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