Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > I've put together some notes on upgrading a Fedora system from i386 to > x86_64: > > http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/Fedora64bitUpgrade Really interesting. In the middle of your process, you basically have two entire i386 and x86_64 distributions installed together. Does this really work? I mean, is the infrastructure able to have coexistent x86_64 and i386 rpms for every package? (and with i386 rpms coming from an i386 distribution, and not special i386 rpms done for an x86_64 distribution). When one removes the i386 packages at the end of the migration, is the system really in good shape? For example, what kind of issues does an "rpm -Va" find? Are all data files arch independent? (for example binary databases, such as the rpmdb itself). In my opinion, an i386 -> x86_64 upgrade path (even if not really officially supported) will be useful to many people. I personally hate to reinstall everything. (upgraded all the way from RedHat 5.1 up to Fedora 10 migrating hardware a few times, with only one reinstallation from scratch in the middle). Best regards. Ciao :-) -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
