Is Gnome 2.20.3 x86_64 only ?

jolinfire · 2008-01-14 14:32:20

I am seeing something strange. And I can see it also on my own country prefered mirror.

Gnome 2.20.3 is only available for x86_64. i686 version is still 2.20.2

For exemple, go to : ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distrib … a/os/i686/ and you'll find :

gnome-desktop-2.20.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

gnome-desktop-2.20.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Is this a known bug ?!

wonder · 2008-01-14 15:49:23

it's not the end of life because i686 does not have 2.20.3

Cerebral · 2008-01-14 15:52:23

Well, it's not really a bug. Nobody's packaged 2.20.3 for i686 yet.

jolinfire · 2008-01-14 16:23:06

wonder wrote:

it's not the end of life because i686 does not have 2.20.3

Of course not, but it will be better for i686 users, won't it ?

Cerebral wrote:

Well, it's not really a bug. Nobody's packaged 2.20.3 for i686 yet.

I thought i686 was the main CPU family for Arch ?!

Anyway, let's hope it will be corrected soon

ise · 2008-01-14 17:02:40

jolinfire wrote:

I thought i686 was the main CPU family for Arch ?!

No, it isn't the main CPU family. Both architectures are supported the same way!!

JGC · 2008-01-14 20:32:30

The GNOME maintainer happens to use amd64 to get full support for 8GB memory.
i686 packages will be available later this week.

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