On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:54:36AM +1100, Mike Barnes wrote:
Jay Estabrook wrote:
Anyone have any additional thoughts on this?
I'm having deja vu:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/axp-list/2005-October/msg00076.html
Ah, that DOES look a bit familiar, but didn't ever completely resolve,
IMHO.
Also, I've started building EV6 packages, and wrote a little guide to
enabling their use here (it's quite simple and works perfectly):
http://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/3/extras/README.ev6
Thanks!
The same would apply to EV67, I'm sure.
And does, AFTER some tweaking... :-)
Editing the /etc/rpm/platform file is the easy fix, and this is
generated by Anaconda at install time, from memory. I think it's all
covered in the thread linked above.
If you have an EV67 or EV68 (I think EV7 may also be possible and
necessary), and have edited /etc/rpm/platform to accurately reflect
your CPU, you also need to tweak a few additional files before "yum"
and "rpm" will do the Right Thing(tm) for you:
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/arch.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py
Adding appropriate entries (similar to what's already there for EV6
and EV56) for EV67 and EV68 (and EV7) will do it!
I'll try to generate some updated RPMS for the packages that own those
files (yum and rhpl, IIRC), and pass them along...