[Yum] Re: yum on RHEL AS release 3 taroon 4 on dell 64 bit HW

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Where did you get the tarball from?

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.4 has both tarball and src.rpm

Besides, depending on exactly what kind of 64bit you have it should
work as noarch regardless.

Greg

On 8/31/05, Thomas David Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:53 pm
> Subject: [Yum] Re: yum on RHEL AS release 3 taroon 4 on dell 64 bit HW
> 
> > I think you wan #rpm --rebuild <srpmname>
> 
> But these instructions came from the tarball, not a sourcerpm. Maybe I 
> should look for a source rpm?
> 
> Ah! 
> 
> rpmbuild -tb <tarball>
> 
> will build a binary rpm from a source tarball!
> 
> But it is a noarch rpm.... will that help me with my 64-bit problems, 
> or am I back at square 1?
> 
> I guess maybe I can try to edit the spec file, but there is no 
> explanation of it in the man page.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> Dve
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