>>>>> "RGB" == Robert G Brown <rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: RGB> Obviously after FC1, which we're still using in production on our RGB> Opterons. Really? For me it's so unstable as to be useful. I just went to test this out on the one Opteron I still have running FC1 only to find it dead. RGB> Maybe the solution is just to wait for FC2? You could just try pulling the latest Yum package from Rawhide (2.0.7-1.1, I think). I'm running it on RH9 and FC1 without problems. RGB> This naming scheme would work fine, especially if there were a RGB> package group named something pithy like Compat_i386 that had all RGB> the package.i386 libraries in it. It's pretty weird. I have a complete set of i386 packages installed on my FC2T3 Opterons and, well, I'm not completely sure if everything I did was proper. Under FC1 you simply can't bring in all of the X libraries because the different arch packages conflict. This worked better under FC2T3 but some things still give me hives: > rpm -qf /usr/share/terminfo ncurses-5.4-4.1 ncurses-5.4-4.1 Most packages aren't split into library-only packages, and so you have various files installed twice. But I can at least run pretty complicated packages, like Matlab (which brings in Java and a bunch of weird choices in what to link dynamically and what to link statically), and they run very quickly. Matlab still needs LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1, but it's needed that since Red Hat 9. Sorry, this has drifted off-topic from the Yum list. - J<
