On 7/17/07, Alan M. Evans <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> I think you answered my question. I am able to yum things for my 32
> bit Linux and all the updates they send out are for 32 bit machines. If
> I were to go 64 bit I need to FTP the RPM files and and install them
> myself.
I'm not sure what leads you to say this. Have you ever even tried?
Observe as I update my Athlon64 X2 workstation with yum:
[root@skyhawk ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gimp.x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.0.10-14.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package gimp-libs.x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
gimp x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 updates 10 M
gimp-libs x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 updates 423 k
nfs-utils x86_64 1:1.0.10-14.fc6 updates 347 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 3 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 11 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
That holds until you try to run multimedia. We're a ways off from
getting all multimedia packages in a 64-bit version.
