How to change "Up2date" Architecture?

[Mike Watson]

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On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:25 pm, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 07:27, Mike Watson wrote:
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> > I switched my Fedora hard drive from one machine to another.  The
> > first was an AMD K6-2 (i586), the second was an AMD Athlon XP 2800.
> >  All went well except for one thing---up2date still thinks I have
> > an i586 instead of an Athlon.  There is a kernel update available,
> > but up2date picks the wrong one.
> >
> > In addition, I can't use RPM to instead the rpm directly.  I get a
> > message about the file requiring an Athlon architecture and RPM
> > quits.
> >
> > How can I change the architecture?  Why does RPM now refuse to
> > install. I can't use --force either.
>
> rpm -ivh --ignorearch kernel-*.athlon.rpm
>
> Should work as a temporary fix, but there are references to the
> machine's arch in /usr/lib/rpm/macros, and I'm not sure of the
> correct way to fix it.

Chris,

	Thanks! That allowed RPM to install the .athlon.rpm kernel version.  
Up2date still wants to install the i586 version.  Now I have an Athlon 
kernel and i586 glibc.  I don't think that will be a problem.  I'll 
checkout /usr/lib/rpm/macros.  

	I've also noticed that rc.sysinit has a section where HOSTTYPE=`uname 
- -m`, but that doesn't seem to be run at boot time. Echo $HOSTTYPE still 
returns i386. 

	Any other ideas how to fix the architecture?  I've switched HD like be 
before with RHL and have never had the problem, so I didn't expect to 
have it with Fedora.  
	
	I wuz wrong!

Mike W.
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