[Yum] arch bug

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 11:33, Jack Neely wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:44:44AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > fo/yum
> > > 
> > > Seth,
> > > 
> > > This didn't strike me as the same bug when I first ran into it.  The
> > > error message is (I think) complaining about that yum is trying to
> > > install the wrong arch.  I've got i386, i686, and athlon packages.  Of
> > > course, they must match the kernel arch because they are kernel modules.
> > > 
> > > I'll try your latest snapshot.
> > 
> > 
> > Please do and do a -d5 - I'd like to see what its pulling.
> 
>         http://anduril.pams.ncsu.edu/~slack/yum2.log
> 
> that's me doing a yum -d 10 install beowulf with today's snapshot where
> beowulf is an empty package that runs some %post magic and depends on
> all the beowulf packages including bporc-nodules.  It still wants to
> install the athlon arch.
> 
> > 
> > The thing is an athlon package _should_ run on an i686 - or at least it
> > should install.
> 
> Should *install*, yes, run no.  At least, not kernel modules built with
> althon symbols.
> 
> > 
> > try specifically updating that package:
> > 
> > yum -d 5 update bproc-modules would be the most useful thing.
> 
> And, of course, this installs the right arch, i686 and proper deps that
> bproc-modules uses.
> 
> What I'm trying to do here is make an easy, automated way to get all the
> packages to make a RK box into a beowulf head node.  Hence the "beowulf"
> package.
> 
>

ok try this
go into the yum snapshot dir
run this
python
import archwork
archlist = ['i386','i686','athlon','i586']
archwork.bestarch(archlist)

tell me what it outputs.

b/c its either that or it can't find the i686 one at all.

-sv

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