Re: [opensuse-factory] Is the upgrade from 32 bits to 64 bit supported? Question for devs O:-)

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On Monday, 2010-02-08 at 14:30 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:40:22 +0100 Stephan Kulow <> wrote:

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No, it's not "of course". You can't replace the glibc and expect rpms still being able to call bash to do their %post scripts.

This _can_ work, but only with special care.

Yes, but I'd argue that this special care has to be applied anyway. Because your sentence is true, even without an architecture change :)

I was talking about an upgrade "the traditional way", ie, booting from the install DVD. No way would I attempt of upgrading this using zypper - I'm not that adventurous ;-)

- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.