Re: x86_64 support

[Jeff Sheltren <sheltren cs ucsb edu>]

On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Karl Lattimer wrote:

> Hi there,
>   It seems there is no x86_64 support for AMD opteron/athlon 64bit? Is
> this intentional or is it an oversight? I am running an old Fedora  
> Core
> 2 server with an ath64 in it. I don't get any updates anymore, luckily
> it is behind a firewall and because of the nature of the server I  
> can't
> upgrade it entirely very easily, I would however like to make sure  
> that
> I've got all available security updates.
>
> Kind regards,
>   Karl,

Hi Karl, currently FL does not provide x86_64 packages.  I believe  
that once the new build system is in use (currently it's being  
tested), then we will start pushing out x86_64 packages for FC2 and  
FC3, and this also means we'll be rebuilding the current packages to  
x86_64 as well.

-Jeff