Thanks a lot to all of you for your responses!!

As I have to do this for a "production system" I won't do it by a
simple rpm- or yum-update.   But I suggest updating by anaconda 
should work...

Thanks,
Christian

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Auftrag von Corey Kovacs
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2010 13:35
An: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
Betreff: Re: [rhelv5-list] Change RHEL architecture...

Yup, sorry, kernel does NOT rely on glibc, early morning moment...

Still, I think the gen consensus is, don't bother doing this.. :)
-C

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:13 AM, John Summerfield
<deb...@herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Corey Kovacs wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> No part of the kernel uses glibc. However, glibc does talk to the kernel.
>
> I'm inclined to think Colin's approach will work, but I'd want a 54-bit
> rescue system to hand (a live CD would do), just in case. RPM and YUM both
> can update another system via --root options.
>
>
>
>
>
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