[Yum] upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sat Feb 24 07:27:32 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:07 -0800, greno wrote:
> I posted a question on FedoraForum about migrating a current fc6 32-bit
> installation over to a new 64-bit server and then upgrading it so that it
> was 64-bit.  Here is a link to that post: 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=148526  Anyway, I was
> thinking that there may be a way of doing a 'yum upgrade' to go from 32-bit
> to 64-bit that would preserve all of my many package configurations.  Is
> this possible?

I wouldn't bet on that working reliably or sanely.

if you don't mind messing around for a long time you can give it a try,
but it's nothing we've ever tested or would suggest someone counting on
not breaking everything :)

-sv





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