[Yum] about dir structure: i386 and i686 to diff dirs or not?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:02, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> I am trying to establish as simple as possible directory structure for
> RPMs to be available via yum.
> 
> I just browsed through http://ayo.freshrspm.net/redhat/ and noticed that
> in http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/updates/RPMS/ Matthias has
> glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm RPM even though the dir structure would
> suggest that there should be only i386 RPMs there.
> 
> So, when working with yum, is there any reason to put i386 and i686 RPMs
> in different dirs? Let's say I have an old i486 machine and I use yum
> with it, does yum know to do the right thing and install the i386
> version of the glibc and not the i686 version?
> 
> It would be neat and simple, if I could just put all i386, i686 and
> noarch RPMs in a same dir.
> 
> Many words wasted for explaining a simple issue :)

There is no reason to split up the files into separate dirs.

yum does the 'right thing' when it comes to handling multiple archs.

-sv