[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On 11/25/2009 01:32 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2009, at 19:30, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/24/2009 09:58 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:19:22PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>>>> So would this mean one disk with two "repositories" on it, or is
>>>>>> everything
>>>>>> mashed together all in one repository?
>>>>> The current x86-64 has both 32-bit and 64-bit "mashed together," so
>>>>> that
>>>>> sort of configuration would be more of the same.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, it's currently only half-mashed.
>>> 
>>> In Fedora 12, the i686 and x86-64 rpms are in the same directory, on
>>> the x86-64 DVD ISO.
>>> 
>>> That's sufficiently mashed for my purposes, but whatever... :)
>
>> Look closer. It is only a small subset of the i686 content in the x86_64
>> repo for multilib purposes.
>
> That's merely a space issue, not any failure to or absence of "mash"
>

mash is a specific program in this case. It inspects the pkgs to determine 
which i686 pkgs need to be included in the x86_64 tree.

It's not arbitrary.

-sv