Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >> Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us >> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 17:21 >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] calendar >> >> <snip> >> Would be nice. Trouble is, we've got what, 60? 70? people in the >> division > > With that many you obviously have a local mirror that they all update > from, right? > cd pathtomirror/5/updates/x86_64/RPMS > find ../../i386 -name thunderbird\* -exec ln -s {} \; > cd .. > createrepo -v --update -d -o repodata x86_64 > > And get your boss happy with _that_ .... but only if the 32bit version > worked. > >> who have Linux workstations, and then rolling it all out, and no one >> wants >> to deal with 32-bit apps on 64 bit systems (we won't mention >> npviewer<segv><segv<segv>).... >> >> Lightening and lightening-exchange looked really good.... >> > > > Any chance you could get the source of those and recompile for 64? > Yeh Yeh, maintenance headache, but can that set of headaches (work [and > more at each update of the tool] and IA) be balanced against the > alternatives and be a win for the division. > Aham.... Thunderbird in CentOS 5.x is 2.0 and connector does not work with 2.0, just with 3.x .... Ljubomir