>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Viren <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Brett> csieh <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> I was hoping that you would provide us with the AMD-64 and maybe itanium
>> rpms as we are kind of short of development hardware in these
>> areas.
Brett> Is the CERN AMD64 port a pure 64 bit only system or does it support
Brett> both 32 and 64 bit binaries?
Both, but ... not all libraires are available in 32-bit mode. For
example, most of the GUI libraries (gnome-*, KDE*) are
64bit-only. Since we don't expect to run a lot of Opterons any time
soon, this allows us to do comparisons for the code we are interested
in, but is probably not a generally-useable desktop distro.
Brett> If the latter, can packages from the i386 distribution be
Brett> additionally installed?
Only as long as all of the 32-bit dependencies are met.
Regards
jan