Upgrading from F7-x86_64 to F8-i386

[Sam Varshavchik]

Markus Kesaromous writes:

> 
> I would like to use yum to upgrade from Fedora 7 x86_64
> to Fedora 8 (or 9, if I can be patient) i386. Is this possible?

Not really.

> How?

Your best bet is to just to back up your data, then do a clean install.

> Please dont ask my why I want to do this!
> I have had it with yum installing both i386 AND x86_64
> versions of same library,

Oh, please. One setting in /etc/yum.conf will fix this. Did this three years 
ago, never had to worry about it.

>                            lack of support in many apps for
> 64 bit, yara...yara...etc.

Dunno about that. Except for flash, I never had any problems like that.

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