On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:32 -0400, rita chiu wrote: > Hi, > > Would anyone be able to tell me the difference between the usage of > ppc64pseries and ppc64? ppc64pseries is used to distinguish the kernel from ppc64iseries, and ppc64. In more recent releases a common ppc64 kernel for powermac (G5) and IBM pSeries and i5 is used (ppc64), ppc64iseries still remains for leagacy iSeries. > On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, when creating an RPM, it uses > 'ppc64pseries' by default. # Determined by /etc/rpm/platform. > In terms of installation of an RPM on a > ppc64 machine, I do not see any difference from using 'ppc64pseries' > or 'ppc64' as the $ARCH part of the RPM name. (e.g. no installation > difference if I have abc-1.2.3-4.ppc64.rpm or > abc-1.2.3-4.ppc64pseries.rpm) You probably want to build with --target ppc64 as whilst ppc64iseries and ppc64pseries are compatible with (see rpmrc) ppc64 they are not compatible with each other (preventing a ppc64pseries kernel being installed on an iSeries). So a ppc64pseries package will not install on ppc64iseries. > Would anyone please provide more information on the usage of > 'ppc64pseries' and 'ppc64' on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? It really matters only for the kernel in RHEL 3. Paul _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
