On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:48 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 13:50 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > syslinux would need to be able to detect the arch to install and likely > > also > > have a flag to force 32 bit we could easily implement the 64 bit kernel and > > 32 > > bit userland idea that was put forward a few releases ago. pungi will need > > to > > learn how to make the new iso. but i think it is achievable. > > As I'm actually trying this on one of the laptops on my desk, I'd point > out that this almost certainly requires yum changes to work well. yum > gets its idea of arch from uname, which reports what the kernel is, not > what the current glibc is. > > Not that it's not a good idea - it seems to work surprisingly well - but > it's not turnkey yet.
Also plugins like "kmod" which use uname directly. And anaconda really doesn't like it, from a previous similar RFE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437914 RFE: Yum 32bit for installer? -- as 64bit uses twice as much memory ...on the upside IIRC notting tried the 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace for F11, and had a single line patch (to rpmUtils.arch) to make yum happy. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
