[CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Dec 28 17:18:16 UTC 2011



Am 28.12.2011 18:13, schrieb Michael Lampe:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
>> compilers and devel-packages should usually be seperated from
>> working-computers and the compiled software packed as RPM
>> in a dedicated vritual machine
> 
> I'm using CentOS not only as a mail/web/etc. server, but also on my 
> development workstation, on a compute server and on an in-house compute 
> cluster. Compiling from source code in both 32- an 64-bit is a 
> requirement of all users of these machines.

what excatly is the need to use 32bit-software?
compiling is not the problem
there is ONE virtual machine neough for all users

however i can not imagine a usecase for 32bit software these days

2.6.41.6-1.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 21 22:36:55 UTC 2011
[harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep i686



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