Re: Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine? (RHEL3)

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Hi John,

Thanks for the advice. I've already got the --resolvedeps flag but the two Compatibility install groups weren't in there.

Now on a clean install I get both flavours and am ready to go back to testing.

Thanks all!
Drew.

John Rothschild wrote:
On RHEL  4, the following works.  I  haven't tested it on RHEL 3.

Add this to your packages section of your kickstart file.

%packages --resolvedeps

@Compatibility Arch Support
@Compatibility Arch Development Support

(I  got this information from a March 1 posting to this list.)

You can also do this via up2date. You will need to use the undocumented --arch option to get the right version. (--arch=i386 (?) vice --arch=x86_64) I hope this helps.

        JR

On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Drew Leske wrote:

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.

--Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria
  dleske@xxxxxxx / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)

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