How to change "Up2date" Architecture?

[Mike Watson]

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On Friday 05 December 2003 06:40 pm, Mike Watson wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2003 06:31 pm, William Hooper wrote:
> > Mike Watson  said:
> > > In addition, I can't use RPM to instead the rpm directly.  I get
> > > a message about the file requiring an Athlon architecture and RPM
> > > quits.
> > >
> > > How can I change the architecture?  Why does RPM now refuse to
> > > install. I can't use --force either.
> >
> > RPM is the one complaining, not up2date.
> >
> > You can see the values by doing:
> >
> > rpm --showrc | head
> >
> > I don't think directly editing the rpmrc file is the "correct"
> > (since MaximumRPM says "don't touch"), so you might want to ask on
> > the RPM-List.
>
> rpm --showrc | head  says I have a build architecture of i386 and
> compatible architecture is i586 i486 i386.
>
> How can I correct this?
>
> Mike W

Since my original question was that up2date showed the wrong CPU on the 
kernel upgrade, is this an up2date issue or RPM?

I have found that $HOSTTYPE is still shown as i386 instead of i686 like 
my other Athlon.  Running kudzu changes nothing.  Is one of the sysint 
scripts failing too?

Mike Watson
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