[Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386

Richard Kweskin rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr
Wed Oct 30 14:06:41 EET 2002


Hello All

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:37 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:

> (snip) My proposal, if Red Hat decides to switch to i586 packages,
> is to recompile the whole distro for i386 and make it available for
> download. Of course, this might not be worth the effort as well... ;-))

I thought I was hearing previously that only some packages need re-tweaking 
back to 386/486, e.g. kernel,glibc. Wasn't this the reason for testing these 
i586 packages on 386/486 hardware? Or should testing now concentrate on the 
classic pentium as a minimum?

Richard


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