On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:15 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:35:26 -0500 (EST) > Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Charlie Brady wrote: > > > > > Has there been any discussion of what would be involved to do an > > > in-place conversion from i686/i386 to x86_64? > > > > Does no-one have any view on this? > > It's somewhat uncharted territory. None of the tools are designed to > handle it, and you're likely going to have a few breaks along the way. > > Start with installing kernel.x86_64 and glibc.x86_64 and the deps > thereof, reboot to that, and then install all the x86_64 versions of > what you ahve already, but you're going to run into conflicts. It > would be slightly easier if you were doing package upgrades at the same > time, so that the nvr would change. >
In general do not expect it to work. Expect things to be forever inconsistent and somewhat dodgy on that system. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
