Re: multilib and i386 rpms on x86_64

[Nathan Grennan <fedora-test-list cygnusx-1 org>]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:50 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> Did I miss something along the way of running rawhide that it seems
> that for example firefox.i386 and helixplayer aren't able to install?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155790
> 
> That was closed, but I don't seem to be able to  yum install firefox.i386

  I do remember being able to installed i386 packages while using FC4
Test releases. I noticed it wasn't the same in FC4. I ended up doing the
same thing I did with FC3. Setting up duplicate repository files
in /etc/yum.repos.d. I change the $basearch references to i386 and
rename the file from fedora.repo to fedora-i386.repo. Then you have to
use yum install package.x86_64 instead of yum install package. Otherwise
you will get the i386 and x86_64 versions.