On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 14:12 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:42 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > >> Now that Fedora 11 x86_32 is going to be based on i586 packages rather > >> than i386 packages, does it follow that yum's $basearch will change from > >> i386 to i586 and hence repository directory layouts changing too, or > >> will it stay at i386? > >> > > > > I don't think it will change. For a few reasons: > > > > 1. non-fedora repos > > 2. non-fedora distros > > 3. this is why we also have $arch in addition to $basearch > > > > make sense? > > Certainly from the point of view of being the least disruptive option; > it'll just look a bit strange having i386 "Everything" repos with no > i386 packages in them... Which is why we shouldn't have i386 repos. We should switch fedora-release to using $arch and an i586 repo which is a symlink to the i686 repo. Then when we phase out i586 in F12, we just remove the i586 symlink. That way, if anyone wants to maintain a build of fedora for i586 or lesser machines then they can do so in the i586 path using $arch. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
