x86_32 yum $basearch

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Feb 20 16:45:11 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:20 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Which is why we shouldn't have i386 repos. We should switch
> fedora-release to using $arch and an i586 repo which is a symlink to the
> i686 repo. Then when we phase out i586 in F12, we just remove the i586
> symlink. That way, if anyone wants to maintain a build of fedora for
> i586 or lesser machines then they can do so in the i586 path using
> $arch.

"i386" has always been our x86 offering. We haven't shipped an i386, let
alone i486 kernel in many many years, so "i386" was already a misnomer.
I have no plans to change the directory path for this release.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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