Re: Fwd: OK, I had to do it again (disk transplant from a i586 to a i686)...
Robert Heller <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general |
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| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
At Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:50:57 -0500 RPM Package Manager <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 11:05 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > > I posted this to the linux.redhat.com newsgroup and didn't get a reply. > > I now need to apply some updates, but can't do things automagically with > > yum because of this problem (I'll have to update some packages manually > > with 'rpm --ignore-arch ...', which is a real PITA). I did a google > > search and cannot find any documentation on how to fix this. Do I > > really need to do a fresh re-install? Arg!!! > > > > > edit /etc/rpm/platform It works!!! Thanks. Where is this documented? > > make sure it says i686, not i586 in there. > > > then do your updates w/yum. It, in theory, should be able to get you to > the proper archs. > > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database [email protected] -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk