seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:42 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:Now that Fedora 11 x86_32 is going to be based on i586 packages rather than i386 packages, does it follow that yum's $basearch will change from i386 to i586 and hence repository directory layouts changing too, or will it stay at i386?I don't think it will change. For a few reasons: 1. non-fedora repos 2. non-fedora distros 3. this is why we also have $arch in addition to $basearch make sense?
Certainly from the point of view of being the least disruptive option; it'll just look a bit strange having i386 "Everything" repos with no i386 packages in them...
Paul.