problems updating glibc

[Peter Robinson]

>> > 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.

I'm not sure, openSSH seems to use nss  now instead of openssl, but I
would have thought they would both use similar CPU ops.

> (It's also worth noting that there are at least two somewhat different
> variations of the Geode.)

Yea, these are the LX which I think is the same or similar to the
OLPC. They also have a crypto/RNG processor too that seems to work
nicely.

Peter