FESco meeting summary for 20090507
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon May 11 21:54:39 UTC 2009
Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said:
> On Sunday, May 10 2009, Jon Stanley said:
> > Moreover, with the new architecture support feature in F11, we're now
> > supposedly defaulting to an x86_64 kernel on an i686 install if the
> > processor supports it (note that I say supposedly because I've not
> > personally tested it). Thus you have an x86_64 kernel, and all of the
> > goodness that brings, but you still have an i686 userspace.
>
> Due to some complications, we fell back to the contingency and aren't
> installing the x86_64 kernel on the 32bit distro at all for F11 quite a
> while ago[1]
To elaborate:
- yum uses the running architecture to determine $basearch to use in
your repo files
- Hence, installing an x86_64 kernel means yum immediately switches
you to the x86_64 repo. Oops.
Also, you'd need one of:
- rpm code to allow installing x86_64 kernels when the host arch was x86
*OR*
- syslinux/grub code for automatically picking the right kernel, and
anaconda changes to ship both on the image
While we did create some patches, fixing this in a way that simultaneously:
- didn't require changes to existing repo files
- wasn't extremely gross
is non-trivial.
Bill
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