yum update on Eden processor machine
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 10 14:49:35 UTC 2006
David Fletcher wrote:
> 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?
Check what you've already got:
$ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' glibc kernel
I'm pretty sure you'll find you're already running i686 versions of
these packages.
Paul.
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