[Yum] In pursuit of 32-bit => 64-bit upgrade path

[Gerry Reno]

Seth Vidal wrote:
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>
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> I've been conducting some trials to get a system on 32-bit Fedora to 
>> upgrade to 64-bit Fedora. Nothing so far has succeeded. Yum always 
>> ends up with hundreds of conflicts. I think what is missing is that 
>> first we need to be able to run a 64-bit kernel with the 32-bit 
>> userland and then maybe we could get some traction on an upgrade path 
>> between the architectures. Then 'uname' would report a 64-bit capable 
>> system and /etc/rpm/platform could have x86_64-redhat-linux and 
>> together those might straighten out yum to where it could determine 
>> proper dependencies with 64-bit as preferred.
>>
>> Is it possible to run a 64-bit kernel with F10? Is there a set of 
>> packages that could be force installed that would allow this?
>
> Gerry,
> the path you are pursuing is a BAD IDEA. You will run into all sorts 
> of problems and I don't think we'll learn much about the process by 
> doing this.
>
> If you want to switch your arch from 32bit to 64bit the only safe path 
> is via a reinstall.
>
Yes, but I'm trying to preserve all the hundreds of configs that have 
been setup on some of these systems and don't want to spend tons of time 
redoing all those and retesting everything. If we had a straightforward 
upgrade path from one arch to the other this would be most helpful.

Regards,
Gerry