Jeremy, I've been running x86_64 exclusively for a while now. I find the only thing I need to build from source is the kdemultimedia package, everything else _I_ need is available by Matthias at http://www.freshrpms.net - scripts could be written to automatically generate x86_64 pacakges from source rpms but I wouldn't want to write the dependency handling stuff. Example, use the atd to download a bunch of packages via ftp. When done cd into the directory and do a for x in *.src.rpm do rpmbuild --rebuild $x done Regards, Nick On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:00 +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > Hi - > > I'm running FC2 on a new Athlon-64 system (x86_64 installation). > > Looking at http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html it suggests I can get > fedora extras from > http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorax86_64/fedora.us/2/x86_64/ . > However, these are quite old compared to the i386 fedora extras. > There aren't any x86_64 binaries at > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/ > > So I could > o Use the old ones at duke.edu > o Start recompiling SRPMS from the fedora.us > o Use the 32-bit apps, installing the appropriate 32-bit libraries > > Is there a more recent fedora extras repository? Is there an automated way > I could generate x86_64 packages from the SRPMS? > > Thanks > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Sanders <jss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ > X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. > Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 >
