Re: Fwd: OK, I had to do it again (disk transplant from a i586 to a i686)...

[Robert Heller <heller deepsoft com>]

At Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:50:57 -0500 RPM Package Manager <rpm-list redhat com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 11:05 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I posted this to the linux.redhat.com newsgroup and didn't get a reply. 
> > I now need to apply some updates, but can't do things automagically with
> > yum because of this problem (I'll have to update some packages manually
> > with 'rpm --ignore-arch ...', which is a real PITA).  I did a google
> > search and cannot find any documentation on how to fix this.  Do I
> > really need to do a fresh re-install?  Arg!!!
> > 
> 
> 
> edit /etc/rpm/platform

It works!!! Thanks.

Where is this documented?

> 
> make sure it says i686, not i586 in there.
> 
> 
> then do your updates w/yum. It, in theory, should be able to get you to
> the proper archs.
> 
> 
> -sv
> 
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