On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 05:23 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:49 +0100, Kay Diederichs wrote: <snip> > > > > > > Testing repository .repo file: > > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo > > > > > > Packages can be download manually here: > > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ > > > > I have been using the 32bit CentOS-provided freenx / nx successfully on > > x86_64 systems. I believe they require > > nxsetup --purge --uninstall > > nxsetup > > after the initial install, but then they work just fine. > > Now I'd like to update them to the testing ones, using yum. How can I do > > this - the .repo file in your posting does not work - my $basearch is > > wrong !? I think yum should have an option to override $basearch, or the > > i386 packages should somehow be visible in the x86_64 repo. > > > > Clearly I can download the .rpms and run yum or rpm directly, but there > > ought to be a more elegant way ... > They are both .i386 packages and I could put them in the x86_64 repo ... > but I haven't checked that all the dependancies are meet in the other > parts of the x86_64 repo. > > I will test that now and see if that is the case. > > The source from No Machine will not compile on x86_64, or we would have > an x86_64 version. Since the source did not work for x86_64, I was > concentrating on making that work and I didn't think to try to make the > i386 version work on x86_64 :) > > For the purposes of testing, could you please manually download them and > install ... and if everything i386 required to support NX/FREENX is in > the base x86_64 repo already, then when we move these into production, I > can also put it into the x86_64 repo too. > > I am going to start looking at that aspect of it right now. OK ... if you haven't manually installed yet, try now with yum. I validated that the requires are meet and I got it to install on an x86_64 machine OK. I did not have to rerun nxsetup either ... it worked OK after copying the client key into the NX client on the connecting machine. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20061124/54744499/attachment-0007.sig>