Re: [Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386

[Martin Stricker]

Richard Kweskin wrote:
> 
> 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?

Currently only the kernel and glibc are built for i586. But if Red Hat
decides to go completely to i586 for all packages, those will not work on
i386/i486 from what I understand.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker

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