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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