On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:41:07PM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:35 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:42:12AM -0600, evaughn@xxxxxxxxx alleged:
> > > I have set up a local yum repository server for RHEL x86_64 and
> > > connected to it with clients using yum 2.0.4. However, the clients show
> >
> > Didn't that older yum have problems with "biarch" distros? I've been
> > using yum 2.0.7 on RHEL3 for quite some time on x86_64 with no problems.
> > And of course, 2.0.8 has been out for over a year.
>
> I don't remember it having list problems - but I'm sure there were other
> problems.
>
> so no matter what -upgrading to 2.0.8 or just grab the yum from centos
> 3.6
As long as we're on the subject, I'm surprised ia32e hasn't come up
before with 2.0.x. I guess everyone else in the world besides me had
already moved on to 2.2/2.4 when ia32e showed up.
I've had this patch in my yum 2.0.7 since March and never got around to
telling anyone about it. Here it is recut for 2.0.8:
--- archwork.py_orig 2005-10-27 11:42:42.000000000 -0700
+++ archwork.py 2005-10-27 11:43:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def compatArchList():
archdict['ia64']=['ia64','noarch', 'i686', 'i386', 'i486', 'i586']
archdict['s390']=['noarch','s390']
archdict['s390x']=['noarch','s390','s390x']
- archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','x86_64','athlon','i386','i486','i586','i686']
+ archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','ia32e','x86_64','athlon','i386','i486','i586','i686']
archdict['parisc']=['hppa2.0','hppa1.2','hppa1.2','hppa1.1','hppa1.0','paris','noarch']
myarch=getArch()
if archdict.has_key(myarch):
--
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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