If you _could_ do it, I wouldn't trust it and I'd only even bother in an extreme case of "There is no way to save off the configs and rebuild."
Now, if I was in that particular situation, I might try doing an _install_ not an upgrade of the 32 bit versions of the following The problem I see with the suggestion before this is glibc and the kernel. The kenrel uses glibc so if you I _believe_ you need to have them both installed and ready to go before you reboot and remove the old glibc. kernel glibc SysVinit redhat-release bash perl python nfs-utils etc... Adjust grub, cross your fingers, say goodbye to your friends and reboot. If you're lucky, you'll get a barely booting system up and running, if you still have network, do the yum upgrade. I'd be very surprised if yum would do anything at all in such a confused state, so get ready to type rpm -Uvh with very long lists. If it works, and I mean in any way shape or form, go buy a lottery ticket and send it to me. I'll send you part of the winnings :) The short answer though, is no, it's not possible just using yum, and it's definitely not a good idea... makes we want to try it now though. Of course because I replied in this way, someone will call me out and say, "hogwash, I do it all the time...It's easy..." At that point this message will self destruct and we never had this communication. -C On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Colin Coe <colin....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this asked before... IIRC the answer was along the lines > of: > > *** UNTESTED *** > --- > rpm -e comps redhat-release --nodeps > rpm -ivh comps.x86_64 redhat-release.x86_64 -- must be done manually > > yum update > rhn-profile-sync > --- > > *** UNTESTED *** > > Now fix your RHN/Satellite/Spacewalk entries to ensure the system is > on the right channels (maybe this should be done first). > > *** UNTESTED *** > > Best idea is probably to re-install but if the system is not > important, you could try the above. > > Note this is untested, if it kills your cat or eats your homework, its > not my fault. > > CC > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Masopust, Christian > <christian.masop...@siemens.com> wrote: >> Probably a very dumb question, but.... >> >> Is it possible to update an existing RHEL 5 i386 to x86_64 ? Simply by >> using yum or rpm? >> >> Thanks, >> christian >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> rhelv5-list@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >> >> > > > > -- > RHCE#805007969328369 > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > rhelv5-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
