Revisor (or Anaconda?) spin - unable to install on i586

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Jeroen,

we have revisor on F-9 ignoring the requested arch and building the
spin based on the host arch only - is this a known issue? The
revisor-made spin we have doesn't work on i586 :-/

more details below...

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> the olpc XS spin is hitting a problem installing on i586s (and that
> includes our own XO). The problem seems to be well known -- anaconda
> composes based on the arch of the build host rather than on the arch
> requested, as described in:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/revisor/wiki/AnacondaUpdates#TheUnabletoInstalloni586Example2
>
> The revisor conf says "architecture=386", yet we are getting _only_
> openssl i686 on the iso, which won't get installed on 586, so
> everything breaks on the (partially installed) machine.
> I'm away from my buildbox today -- Jerry's been testing and reports
> that pungi-driven composes also put an openssl-i386 on the iso, while
> revisor-driven composes don't. So it sounds like the problem is
> perhaps in how revisor drives anaconda?
>
> Any hints or ideas? It seems to be a well known problem...?
>
> (the compose host is a Fedora-9 box, that follows updates.newkey)

cheers,



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