On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:43:41PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> >
> > There is really nothing which would stop you from installing
> > firefox.i386 on an x86_64 installation. 'yum' will do that for you
> > gladly.
>
> But what will happen when there is a new version of firefox out? Won't
> yum then decide that 64-bit is best, and install that?
You may easily check for yourself if operations are correct but
'man yum.conf' says explicitely:
exactarch
Either '1' or '0'. Set to '1' to make yum update only update
the architectures of packages that you have installed. ie: with
this enabled yum will not install an i686 package to update an
i386 package. Default is '1'.
> That sounds like some kind of hell...
Only if you do not bother with documentation.
BTW - FC2 for x86_64 did provide both sets of mozilla packages for
x86_64 and i386. Ten packages in each set. Only later this was
dropped.
Michal