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

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> 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.

-sv