x86 libs on x86_64 - when will they be gone?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu May 18 16:41:31 UTC 2006
Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said:
> Especially for Computer-Magazines and on fairs/FUNCon's where we hand
> out DVD's. Having one Media that can handle both architectures would
> simplify a lot of things and lower the cost.
>
> (Would even be better if the DVD would bundle i386, x86-64 and a i386
> Live-DVD)
Probably the biggest issue is the booting of it... you'd need to pick
the architecture at the boot stage, as you can't install x86_64 correctly
from a ia32 kernel, as all the relevant %posts will fail.
Bill
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