On Nov 29, 2007 6:15 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/11/2007, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Now I have a repository with directories > > > > SRPMS > > i386 > > x86_64 > > > > But then I became concerned: when the x86_64 is doing its multilib > > magic, how does it find the i386 packages it installs in parallel to > > x86_64. > > It doesn't. In your case, it would only work if you enabled the i386 > repo in the x86_64 machine's Yum configuration. > OK, one follow up please. On the x86_64 system, I can build many programs for both architectures by adding the option --target=x86_64,i386 in the rpmbuild. However, for some programs, such as firefox, the i386 rpm fails to build on the x86_64 system. So in that case, I go to a i386 and build firefox. Is there any reason why that firefox.i386 rpm cannot be put into the x86_64 directory for the multilib purpose? Know what I mean? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
