Need to force arch for server install...

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Nov 15 15:16:11 UTC 2004


i think athlon was dropped when the 2.6 series kernels came.

man, 15.11.2004 kl. 02.53 skrev Maciej Żenczykowski:
> > What if I forced everything to i386 to start with ?  Would it then run
> > on every x86 machine ?
> > 
> > We use removable hard drives for a lot of things are it would be great
> > if they ran on *everything*.  Would an i386 kernel do that ?  Would I
> > have to change glibc as well ?
> 
> [root at gaia core]# find -type f | grep "\.rpm\$" | grep -v 
> "\.noarch\.rpm\$" | grep -v "\.i386\.rpm\$"
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/glibc-2.3.3-74.i686.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/nptl-devel-2.3.3-74.i686.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i586.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667.i586.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm
> ./3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/openssl-0.9.7a-40.i686.rpm
> 
> So basically only the kernel, the glibc and the openssl packages are not 
> noarch or i386.  Replacing those with the generic i386 packages would 
> (most likely) suffice.  No idea why the nptl-devel package has an i686 
> version.
> 
> I also fail to see any athlon packages (kernel or otherwise)...
> 
> Cheers,
> MaZe.




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