Seth Vidal wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
I've been conducting some trials to get a system on 32-bit Fedora to
upgrade to 64-bit Fedora. Nothing so far has succeeded. Yum always
ends up with hundreds of conflicts. I think what is missing is that
first we need to be able to run a 64-bit kernel with the 32-bit
userland and then maybe we could get some traction on an upgrade path
between the architectures. Then 'uname' would report a 64-bit capable
system and /etc/rpm/platform could have x86_64-redhat-linux and
together those might straighten out yum to where it could determine
proper dependencies with 64-bit as preferred.
Is it possible to run a 64-bit kernel with F10? Is there a set of
packages that could be force installed that would allow this?
Gerry,
the path you are pursuing is a BAD IDEA. You will run into all sorts
of problems and I don't think we'll learn much about the process by
doing this.
If you want to switch your arch from 32bit to 64bit the only safe path
is via a reinstall.
Yes, but I'm trying to preserve all the hundreds of configs that have
been setup on some of these systems and don't want to spend tons of time
redoing all those and retesting everything. If we had a straightforward
upgrade path from one arch to the other this would be most helpful.
Regards,
Gerry
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