>>>>> "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