i486 base architecture

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Sat Dec 4 15:17:09 UTC 2004


Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>>The rpm implementation does not control what strings are used to 
>>identify arch in packages.
>>For example, PLD is using "pentium3", "pentium4", and "amd64" while
>>Red Hat is using "i586", "i686" and "x86_64" with essentially the same
>>meanings, and all of those strings are being carried in default rpm 
>>configuration.
>>    
>>
>
>The pentium 3 is definatly a i686 arch... the p2 and pentium pro as
>well...
>  
>

Right!

But "pentium3" is most definitely not an an "i686" arch for rpm, because 
the strings are not identical,
and because FC and RHEL do not build *.pentium3.rpm packages.

73 de Jeff





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