FC2T2 amd64 installation report
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Sun Apr 4 02:10:02 UTC 2004
Gene C. wrote:
> On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:02, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Gene C. wrote:
>> > On Saturday 03 April 2004 17:29, Neal Becker wrote:
>> >> download.fedora.us has
>> >> fedora/fedora/1.91/i386/RPMS.updates
>> >> fedora/fedora/1.91/i386/RPMS.stable
>> >>
>> >> Where are the equivalents for amd64? All I can find at redhat and all
>> >> the mirrors is development/, which is rawhide.
>> >
>> > Oh, you mean extras. Well, there are also the SRPMS. You do what I do
>> > (right
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks for the info. Yes, I do want extras too, but I also want redhat's
>> updates. My understanding is that download.fedora.us/...RPMS.updates was
>> the official fedora updates. I think this is supposed to be relatively
>> safe to use, while rawhide is less stable. I've been using the
>> RPMS.updates pretty much since fedora started. But I can't find the
>> equivalent for amd64. Does it not exist?
>
> Not currently. Multi platforms (especially i386 and x86_64) will be
> supported by the Fedora Extras infrastructure when it exists/is made
> available but, right now, fedora.us is i386 only.
>
> Having been playing with this since Justin made the first x86_64 stuff
> available for FC1 has proven interesting. Except for the most simple
> packages, trying to install 32 bit version is a real trial because of
> dependencies. And then there are 64 bit packages ... which you need to
> roll yourself ... which sometimes work and sometimes do not.
>
> I suggest you check the archived of this mailing list, the
> fedora-devel-list at redhat.com and amd64-list at redhat.com. I have put some
> interesting messages out about getting stuff working on FCn x86_64 that
> might prove helpful to you.
Let's do something about it. I am as we speak building k3b. It has lots of
depends that I also built. So far all built from fedora.us SRPMS without
problems. If they seem to run, why don't we start collecting the RPMS
somewhere?
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