Quoting Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>: > Well ... trying to prevent that would be way to difficult as i386 things > are valid to install on x86_64. In fact, fixing it would be breaking > it :) Shouldn't it be the same as not allowing 4.2 media to be used to install from 4.3 tree? If it is able to check the version, it should be able to check arch too. > Some people want to install things outside the x86_64 tree ... > specifically to get things like i386 Firefox, for example. They include > items from the i386 tree on purpose ... No problem with that. They are basically installing from something that is x86_64 tree, and have either some additional i386 stuff in it, or adding additional stuff from some other tree. They are not installing from something that is basically (copy of) i386 media. But there is still slight problem with what I just desribed, when you are actually installing i386 system, but you started installation using x86_64 media. This is basically broken, and Anaconda should complain. Or at least it should detect that and conclude you are installing i386, not x86_64 (which might be complicated to implement). On the first update, yum will install (not update) anything it thinks needs to be updated. For example, one of the first things you'll notice is that "vi" is not working anymore (there's no update for vim, but x86_64 has "higher" version of vim-mininal than i386 does). So you end up with two vim-minimal packages installed in parallel, with later (x86_64) overwriting the former's (i386) files. Since kernel is from i686, obviously things ain't gonna fly. An alternative way of fixing this is if yum would actually check what kernel is running, and set $basearch based on that. That would basically prevent installation of 64-bit binaries under 32-bit kernel (which can't run them). Either that, or hacking yum to include internal dependency that all 64-bit packages require 64-bit kernel. > The only reason you have an error is that not all those items are in the > x86_64 tree on centos. If you had your own modified repos to include all > i386 stuff and not just what the upstream provider (and so we) include, > it would work fine. Actaully, it wouldn't. If installing from i386 tree, you'd get i586 or i686 kernel. When yum runs, it will prefer to install x86_64 (even if previous version of package was i386, like in vim-minimal example above). So it won't work. It will basically break the system. -- See Ya' later, alligator! http://www.8-P.ca/