Rebuilding RPMs results in bad update behavior

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jun 13 22:20:52 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:20:45PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
 > > I thought Core is a revival of the PIII core. At any rate, "generic" is
 > > an -mtune option only, so alone it will not use cmovs anyway because
 > > they're not supported earlier that i686.
 > 
 > Jakub posted a recpie some time ago to get everything 686 but without the 
 > cmov instruction gcc otherwise erroneously issues. IMHO it would be nice
 > to switch Fedora to using "i686 without cmov" for all the .686 packages
 > and kernel and get rid of the extra cases if we can

For the kernel, that is the plan for F8. Then we can stop shipping
a 586 kernel completely.  Only thing holding me back right now is
finding enough ancient bits to put my old 586's back together :-)

	Dave

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