Re: no i686 support?

Hunter Matthews <[email protected]> 12 Mar 2003 13:59:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
Organization Duke University, Biology Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 16:23, Matthew Valites wrote:
> I was wondering why the documentation in current.conf said:
> 
> # arch = The cannonical architecture (a family of archs that this
> #        channel supports. (i386, sparc, alpha. Not i686, etc)
> 

These are the 'base' arches - i386, i486, i586, i686, athlon are all
supported, however the "base" arch is i386.


> I think my problem lies in when I try to connect from a 7.3 machine. 
>  The servers' error log gives:
> 
> ...
> Mar 07 07:20:38 
> /usr/share/current/packagedb.py:getCompatibleChannels({'client_arch': 
> 'i686', 'client_release': '7.3'})
> Mar 07 07:20:38 /usr/share/current/packagedb.py:_getCannonArch({'arch': 
> 'i686'})Mar 07 07:20:38 Result is a Fault
> Mar 07 07:20:38 (/usr/share/current/current_apache.py, 
> sendClientResult(), 253): Data sent.
> Mar 07 07:20:38 sendClientResult() finished
> 
> Is there a way around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Matt
> 
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