On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:13:28AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2008 07:27:40 am Peter Robinson wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've seen mention of this (and actually saw it on another system of > > mine but it settled down) where glibc-common can't update due to > > glibc. > > > > The machine is a Fit-PC which runs on an AMD Geode. It currently has > > the glibc version 2.8.90-14 i686 rpm and attempting to update to 2.9-2 > > it errors with "package glibc-2.9-2.i686 is intended for a i686 > > architecture" which seems weird given that its already running the > > i686 version. Any ideas? > a geode is not i686 compatiable, it is a i586 cpu + cmov it really needs its > own arch for glibc. rpm and yum both now how to deal with .geode packages. > openssl likely needs a .geode rpm also. olpc has the same issue. the images > they use have i686 versions installed. I've got one of these crazy boxes too. Although i686 packages can't be installed, they _do_ seem to work if you force them. Certainly all the simple ones I tried anyway, although maybe I didn't try openssl. (It's also worth noting that there are at least two somewhat different variations of the Geode.) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my OCaml programming blog: http://camltastic.blogspot.com/ Fedora now supports 68 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
