yum update on Eden processor machine

[David Fletcher]

This has got me a little worried:-

Somewhere recently, it might have been this list or the CentOS list, 
there was a thread asking why not compile everything for the i686 
architecture instead of i386 to obtain higher performance?

The answer stated that the performance increase would only be about 
1% therefore hardly worth the trouble. More seriously, in my case, 
the answer also stated that compiling for the i686 architecture would 
prevent software from working in machines with Eden processors. Which 
is exactly what I've got here, running a subversion server.

Here is the output from yum update on this machine:-

  Package         Arch  Version          Repository        Size
================================================================
Installing:
  kernel          i686  2.6.16-1.2069_FC4  updates-released   15 M
Updating:
  anacron         i386  2.3-36.FC4       updates-released   33 k
  glibc           i686  2.3.6-3          updates-released  6.2 M
  glibc-common    i386  2.3.6-3          updates-released   16 M
  mtr             i386  2:0.71-0.FC4.1   updates-released   82 k
  nscd            i386  2.3.6-3          updates-released  127 k
  perl            i386  3:5.8.6-24       updates-released   11 M
  popt            i386  1.10.1-23        updates-released   64 k
  rpm             i386  4.4.1-23         updates-released  584 k
  rpm-libs        i386  4.4.1-23         updates-released  912 k
  rpm-python      i386  4.4.1-23         updates-released   96 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update      10 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 50 M
Is this ok [y/N]:



In the learned opinion of the list, will it cause me problems if I answer y?

i.e. will this update with two i686 architecture components cause my 
Eden processor server to crash?

If so is it possible for me to get i386 architecture updates only?

Thanks.