multilib and i386 rpms on x86_64
Justin Conover
justin.conover at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 18:30:16 UTC 2005
On 7/1/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/05, Nathan Grennan <fedora-test-list at cygnusx-1.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:50 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > > Did I miss something along the way of running rawhide that it seems
> > > that for example firefox.i386 and helixplayer aren't able to install?
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155790
> > >
> > > That was closed, but I don't seem to be able to yum install firefox.i386
> >
> > I do remember being able to installed i386 packages while using FC4
> > Test releases. I noticed it wasn't the same in FC4. I ended up doing the
> > same thing I did with FC3. Setting up duplicate repository files
> > in /etc/yum.repos.d. I change the $basearch references to i386 and
> > rename the file from fedora.repo to fedora-i386.repo. Then you have to
> > use yum install package.x86_64 instead of yum install package. Otherwise
> > you will get the i386 and x86_64 versions.
> >
>
> yum --enablerepo=development-i386 install firefox.i386
> <snip>
> Installing:
> firefox i386 1.0.4-5 development-i386 18 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> libbonoboui i386 2.8.1-4 development-i386 356 k
> libgnome i386 2.10.0-3 development-i386 705 k
> libgnomeui i386 2.10.0-1 development-i386 848 k
>
>
>
> Thank you, didn't think of that :D
>
So should this still be considered a BUG or just and added feature. ;)
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