[Yum] "yum list" shows only a few package

Brian Long brilong at cisco.com
Mon Dec 12 14:47:08 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 09:43 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 12/11/05, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > > O
> > >>> 1. I didn't know of any distros that were shipping an ia32e kernel.
> > >>> Curious
> > >>
> > >> RHEL 3 has separate x86_64 and ia32e kernels...
> > >
> > > RHEL 3 ships with x86(ia32) kernels, and x86_64 kernels. not an ia32e kernel.
> > >
> > > This would lead me to question why you have x86_64 packages on an x86
> > > box, unless you're referring to EMT64 xeons as ia32e
> >
> > RHEL 3 x86_64 has both x86_64 and ia32e kernels. The ia32e one is for
> > emt64, never mind the bizarre name...
> >
> >         - Panu -
> 
> 
> Ah, that clears it all up. Haven't had a chance to play with them yet,
> but from what I've read/heard, I don't think I want to either.

Definitely underwhelming with regards to performance in comparison to a
similarly-configured Opteron-based system.  :)

/Brian/

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