James Pearson wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> Installing 64bit CentOS6 only installs x86_64 and noarch RPMS - however, >>> I have a number of legacy 32bit apps that require a number of 32bit RPMS >>> to be installed. >>> >>> Does anyone know how to get the installer to install the 32bit versions >>> of 64bit RPMS? i.e. in the way it does for CentOS5. >> >> After and bit of digging, it appears to be down to a change of a default >> setting in yum with CentOS6 >> >> The yum config option multilib_policy is now 'best' in CentOS6 - in >> CentOS5 it is 'all' - which means CentOS6 will only install the x86_64 >> version if both a x86_64 and i686 RPM exists in the repo >> >> I guess if I want to revert this back to 'all', I'll need to hack >> anaconda to add 'multilib_policy=all' to the temporary yum config file. > > In case anyone needs to do this - here is what I've done: > > As I install over NFS from a local copy of the distro, I created a > directory called 'RHupdates' at the top level of the install tree and > copied in the file 'yuminstall.py' from the anaconda RPM to that directory. > > I edited the RHupdates/yuminstall.py file and added after line 1186: > > multilib_policy=all > > i.e. that line gets added to the /tmp/anaconda-yum.conf file anaconda > uses to do the install via yum (files in the RHupdates directory will > override files of the same name used by anaconda). > > > I guess I could have done something similar via a kickstart file (which > I haven't tested) - e.g. > > %pre > echo "multilib_policy=all" >> /tmp/anaconda-yum.conf > > > After the install, I added the same "multilib_policy=all" line to > /etc/yum.conf - so a subsequent 'yum update' will update the 32bit > packages as well. > I had a problem with 32-bit rpms on 64-bit system. I tried to install krusader-2.0.0.i386 in 64-bit system, and it reported that files from openssl(I think) x86_64 conflicts with files in same package but i686. That means that there are packages that can only be install as pure 64-bit, no multilib. Ljubomir