Hi Ken, > ...the tarball from one doesn't work on the other. Can you be a little more specific as to what error/problem you encountered? -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # [log in to unmask] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Ken Irwin > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:22 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] another distribution question: 32- or > 64-bit tarballs > > Hi all, > > Thanks to everyone who responded last week about creating an > installation workflow. I've got that mostly sorted out, and > am on to the > next stage. > > I thought it would be a simple matter to TAR up my pile of > files. But as > soon as I tried installing the package on a new server, I ran into > trouble: my library server is a 64-bit machine, and the > second server is > 32-bits. I normally consider that information to be > unimportant to daily > life (read: I really don't know or usually care...). But to > my surprise > that seems to mean that the tarball from one doesn't work on > the other. > > Is this a common problem? Is there a way around it? Are > tarballs really > mutually unintelligible? I don't generally recall seeing two > versions of > software being distributed. Is there a standard approach to > dealing with > this? It's just a pile of text (php, sql, html) and image files -- > there's no compiled code of any sort. I would have thought it > was sort > of architecture-neutral. Except it seems that the packaging mechanism > itself is a problem. > > I did check out the book Erik recommended: > http://producingoss.com/ to > see what it has to say about this matter; all it says is "Use > Tar!" with > no ambiguity about architecture. Is everyone in the world on 64-bit > architecture except this one test server that I have access to? > > Any advice? > > Thanks! > Ken > > -- > Ken Irwin > Reference Librarian > Thomas Library, Wittenberg University >