On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:41:41PM +0100, Eddie Bindt wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Trond Eivind Glomsr?d wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:40, Eddie Bindt wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I have some Celeron processors that are regognized by yum as i686 > > > (Coppermine) . I would like to run i386 rpms on it instead of i686. > > > > > > setting exactarch=1 does not do this ... > > > Is there some setting in yum.conf to force this ? > > > > Try setarch? > > hmm, I can not find any documentation on that ... That would be because it doesn't exist. It does not exist in the docs or the code. I don't know where Trond got that idea. > > That said, Celeron is i686. > > yeah, can be. But I have 2 of these machines out of 200 non-celerons. And > both of the 2 machine run out of memory on RH9 ... > It seems that some non-visible process like internal cache is eating all > the mem ... After 2 or 3 days all mem is gone and I need to reboot ... > As configs on all machines are almost identical, I only can only suspect kernel or glibc ... > These are the only 2 i686 packages (and openssl) on that Celeron > machines.. > > Since I manually installed an i386 kernel and glibc, problems seem to be > less. But not gone :-( > > Anyway, forcing someting like arch=i386 in yum.conf would help ... That is not currently supported, but you CAN manually (with rpm) install i386 versions of what you want. Then, if exactarch is set, yum will KEEP using i386. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
