Re: FC5 ISO Re-Spins

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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 21:24 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It's different for PPC.
> 
> The PPC32 architecture isn't as crap as i386 -- it actually has a sane
> number of registers. Therefore you don't really gain much by using
> 64-bit userspace on a PPC64 machine; on PPC64 we still use mostly PPC32
> userspace.
> 
> So the PPC distro contains PPC64 as a secondary architecture in the same
> way that the x86_64 distro contains i386 packages. And you _can_ do the
> buildinstall of that (including ppc64 packages) on a ppc32 host.
> 
> There _is_ a 'pure ppc64' distro in rawhide, but we don't ship that --
> just as we don't ship ia64, s390, etc.
> 
> -- 
> dwmw2
> 

I was asking about spinning the ISOs for PPC(32) on a PPC(32) 

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