Re: installing ppc and ppc64 packages together

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Marvin Heffler wrote:

# rpm -E '%_transaction_color'
0

This should have the value 3.

Putting in ~/.rpmmacros

    %_transaction_color 3

will "fix", but you really need to find out why the value is 0.

Hmmm, iirc, /usr/lib/rpm/ppc64pseries-linux/macros is where the value is usually set.

Check /usr/lib/rpm/*/macros for the %_transaction_color, note carefully which directories

(or symlinks to directories) do not exist.

# cat /etc/rpm/platform
ppc64pseries-redhat-linux

> What has changed on the system? It's very unlikely to just stop working

Nothing has changed that I am aware of.

>What happens if you do rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.4-2.19.{ppc,ppc64}.rpm rather
> than -ivh

I get the same result as using -ivh.

Always use -Uvh unless its the kernel (or you know exactly what you are doing).

hth

73 de Jeff