Alpha Core 3

[Oliver Falk]

Jay Estabrook schrieb:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:54:36AM +1100, Mike Barnes wrote:
>   
>> Jay Estabrook wrote:
>>     
>>> Anyone have any additional thoughts on this?
>>>       
>> I'm having deja vu: 
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/axp-list/2005-October/msg00076.html
>>     
>
> Ah, that DOES look a bit familiar, but didn't ever completely resolve,
> IMHO.
>
>   
>> Also, I've started building EV6 packages, and wrote a little guide to 
>> enabling their use here (it's quite simple and works perfectly): 
>> http://ftp.alphacore.info/alpha/core/3/extras/README.ev6
>>     
>
> Thanks!
>
>   
>> The same would apply to EV67, I'm sure.
>>     
>
> And does, AFTER some tweaking... :-)
>
>   
>> Editing the /etc/rpm/platform file is the easy fix, and this is 
>> generated by Anaconda at install time, from memory. I think it's all 
>> covered in the thread linked above.
>>     
>
> If you have an EV67 or EV68 (I think EV7 may also be possible and
> necessary), and have edited /etc/rpm/platform to accurately reflect
> your CPU, you also need to tweak a few additional files before "yum"
> and "rpm" will do the Right Thing(tm) for you:
>
> 	/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/arch.py
> 	/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py
>
> Adding appropriate entries (similar to what's already there for EV6
> and EV56) for EV67 and EV68 (and EV7) will do it!
>
> I'll try to generate some updated RPMS for the packages that own those
> files (yum and rhpl, IIRC), and pass them along...
>   

Fine, great. Can you 'zilla a patch after we've tested!? If there are 
changes on yum-code base, please directly post it to Seth, he usually is 
quite happy if someone sends him patches....

Thx,
 Oliver