i586 to i686 upgrade

[david walcroft]

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 
>>
>> Take a look at /etc/rpm/platform.  My system is an i686 and the file 
>> looks like this:
>>
>> i686-redhat-linux
>>
>> If yours is different you might need to change it.
> 
> 
> That was the key!  I spent hours poking around in /usr/lib/rpm before I
> found it.  Changing the contents of /etc/rpm/platform from
> i586-redhat-linux to i686-redhat-linux got RPM to install i686 packages
> without complaint.
> 
> I found that the easiest way to get the i686 versions of openssl and
> glibc installed was to simply use rpm -Uhv --force.
> 
> I also had to clear out /var/spool/up2date before up2date would
> recognize that the latest kernel wasn't installed.  (I had previously
> installed the i586 version of 1.766_FC3 via up2date.  I installed the
> i686 version of 1.760_FC3 and then removed 1.766_FC3.  At this point,
> the RHN applet told me that 1.766_FC3 was available, but up2date kept
> saying that everything was current.  Clearing out /var/spool/up2date
> fixed that problem.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
As a note to this post I use FC3 since it's release and checked this 
file and it returns: "/etc/rpm/platform/athlon-redhat-linux" I thought 
Athlon specifics were obsolete.

  david