Jeremy,
I've been running x86_64 exclusively for a while now. I find the only
thing I need to build from source is the kdemultimedia package,
everything else _I_ need is available by Matthias at
http://www.freshrpms.net - scripts could be written to automatically
generate x86_64 pacakges from source rpms but I wouldn't want to write
the dependency handling stuff. Example, use the atd to download a bunch
of packages via ftp. When done cd into the directory and do a
for x in *.src.rpm
do
rpmbuild --rebuild $x
done
Regards,
Nick
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:00 +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
Hi -
I'm running FC2 on a new Athlon-64 system (x86_64 installation).
Looking at
http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html it suggests I can get
fedora extras from
http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorax86_64/fedora.us/2/x86_64/ .
However, these are quite old compared to the i386 fedora extras.
There aren't any x86_64 binaries at
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/
So I could
o Use the old ones at
duke.edu
o Start recompiling SRPMS from the fedora.us
o Use the 32-bit apps, installing the appropriate 32-bit libraries
Is there a more recent fedora extras repository? Is there an automated way
I could generate x86_64 packages from the SRPMS?
Thanks
Jeremy
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