RPM packages: Athlon vs i686 vs i386

[Don Dixon]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 08.03.2004 schrieb Don Dixon um 03:54:
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>>Greetings,
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>>I recently submitted what I thought was a bug to bubzilla concerning CPU
>>detection and FC1.  The bugzilla number is 116941 if anyone is
>>interested in reading in detail.  The basic problem is that I have an
>>Athlon XP 1600+ CPU, yet when I boot to the CLI, it says:
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>>Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
>>Kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl on an i686
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>>This exact same hardware, until recently was running RH7.3 and it booted
>>to the CLI identifying itself as athlon.  That was the reason I thought
>>it was a bug.  On bugzilla, the report has been closed with:
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>>"athlon is always a i686 for the kernel"
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>That's absolutely right. See the output of "uname -a".
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>>So, what I am now wondering about is updates.  I need to know which 
>>level of RPM packages to
>>load.  For instance with kernels, would I choose 
>>kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm or
>>kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm?  And with glibc, do I choose 
>>glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
>>or glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm.
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>For the kernel choose .nptl.athlon.rpm update packages. For glibc and
>openssl choose i686 RPMs.
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>If you use yum or up2date to keep your system up to date there is no
>need to care for that. The update process will choose the right
>packages.
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Thanks.  This information was most useful.

Don Dixon

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>>Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Don
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>Alexander
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