preupgrade to go from F9 i386 -> F10 x86_64 ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Thu Feb 19 21:33:26 UTC 2009


Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Phil Bieber wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 15:11, Kevin J. Cummings  wrote:
>>> David Timms wrote:
>>
>>>> What file tells preupgrade what arch you are on ?
>>> look at /etc/rpm/platform
>>
>> But is it possible to upgrade between different platforms? I always
>> thought that one cannot change the platform after installing any
>> OS....
> 
> I did it.  It took a little bot of clean up to identify the unneeded 
> leftover .386 RPMs from the needed ones, but I did it.  YMMV.
Thanks, I'm going to give it a try. If the cleanup is too hard, I'll 
just fresh install anyway ;)

Cheers, DaveT




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