problems updating glibc
Peter Robinson
pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 14:22:57 UTC 2008
>> 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.
So OLPC uses i686 or some other package? This one was running i686
probably because I installed it from a LiveCD but has been running
fine, that's probably where the issue came from.
Peter
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