Hi all,
We're using KickStart for clusters and Linux deployment in general, and for
the most part we are happy with this. Recently however we have acquired
some 64-bit machines to be added into our cluster and there are some issues
here.
We would like to make these resources available for 64-bit computing, and
have therefore installed primarily 64-bit libraries on them. However, most
of our users run 32-bit applications. At this point there is not enough
need for exclusively 64-bit machines, but I would like to make the platform
available.
According to a colleague there is a way with yum to specify that whenever
installing a package, a 32-bit version of the package, if available, will be
installed. I am not familiar with yum and am limited to RHEL3, up2date, and
rpm, but this is the functionality I am looking for.
I have looked at the documentation for KickStart (RHEL3 and RHEL4) as well
as browser this mailing list for information, and of course I've searched
the web--nada. Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle this?
Thanks,
Drew.
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Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria
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