On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:02, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I am trying to establish as simple as possible directory structure for > RPMs to be available via yum. > > I just browsed through http://ayo.freshrspm.net/redhat/ and noticed that > in http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/updates/RPMS/ Matthias has > glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm RPM even though the dir structure would > suggest that there should be only i386 RPMs there. > > So, when working with yum, is there any reason to put i386 and i686 RPMs > in different dirs? Let's say I have an old i486 machine and I use yum > with it, does yum know to do the right thing and install the i386 > version of the glibc and not the i686 version? > > It would be neat and simple, if I could just put all i386, i686 and > noarch RPMs in a same dir. > > Many words wasted for explaining a simple issue :) There is no reason to split up the files into separate dirs. yum does the 'right thing' when it comes to handling multiple archs. -sv
