[Yum] forcing to take i386 instead of i686 packages

[Eddie Bindt]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> Celerons ARE 686's -- just 686's with a small cache (think cheap
> PIII's).  Why do you want to run i386 RPMs when i686 RPMs are available?
> They should just run slower...

As far as I know, celerons are 686's that do not meet the 686 specs .. So 
they can not be sold as 686 ...

As I have an out-of-mem problem on just 2 machines that by accident are 
the only 2 coppermine cpu's I have ... And, as both machines just run very 
plain installs with not much to do, I am trying to find the problem in the 
glibc combination. On RH72 both machines ran fine .. But, of course that 
was a different glibc and a different gcc ...

And, why not use i386 rpms ? i386 binairies are just not i686 optimized 
and contain asm instructions for i386 which could be left out on i686 
optimized binairies ... And, since speed is not an issue ... who cares 
about optimization ?? the machines just need to be online...

> rgb  

Eddie