How to get yum to only install < i586?

seandarcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 14:38:30 UTC 2007


Kam Leo wrote:
> On 10/26/07, seandarcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running fc6 on an old i586 machine. yum updates the kernel
>> correctly, and glibc.
>>
>> But, it continues to install openssl.i686, which cause no end of
>> trouble, because this a remote machine. openssl.i686 hoses sshd and rpm.
>>   So someone actually has to crawl though a long shaftway, and set the
>> machine to allow telnet.
>>
>> I have exactarch=1. Somthing I'm missing?
>>
>> sean
> 
> What does "uname -p" produce and how is the architecture specified in
> the .repo files?
> 

uname -p
i586

cat fedora-updates.repo
[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
.........

Thanks for any help.

sean




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