How to change "Up2date" Architecture?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 23:48, Mike Watson wrote:
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> On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:25 pm, Chris Kloiber wrote:
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> > rpm -ivh --ignorearch kernel-*.athlon.rpm
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> > Should work as a temporary fix, but there are references to the
> > machine's arch in /usr/lib/rpm/macros, and I'm not sure of the
> > correct way to fix it.
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> Chris,
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> 	Thanks! That allowed RPM to install the .athlon.rpm kernel version.  
> Up2date still wants to install the i586 version.  Now I have an Athlon 
> kernel and i586 glibc.  I don't think that will be a problem.  I'll 
> checkout /usr/lib/rpm/macros.  

Once you reboot into the Athlon kernel, RPM should "just know" that it's
running on an Athlon again, after that "rpm -Uvh --force
glibc-....i686.rpm" should also work.

Nils
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