How to change "Up2date" Architecture?

[Mike Watson]

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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:10 am, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > 	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

That is did.  $HOSTTYPE is now showing i686.  However, up2date still 
think I'm running a i586 and won't download the .athlon. versions when 
there are updates.

Mike W
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