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.
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