packaging for native OLPC platform

[Peter Robinson]

>> Can you do a rpm -qa | grep glibc and see if the glibc reports the
>> i686 version? I've seen this before with some of the AMD geode
>> processors where the build process uses the i686 package as it can run
>> fine on this particular AMD processor but in actual fact its an i586
>> processor so yum/rpm think there should be the i386 version and hence
>> don't see that glibc.i686 needs upgrading but glibc-common being i386
>> does but conflicts.
>
> Thank you.  This is indeed what seems to be happening.
>
> [I guess this is one situation where a "smart" tool reaches a
> more-difficult-to-use conclusion than a "dumb" human.]

In all cases the tool will err on the side of caution.

>> You can force the upgrade by downloading the rpms
>> and using "rpm -Uvh --ignorearch glibc-package-names.rpm"
>
> Tried it for the fun of it but there was something wrong with the downloaded
> files.  In any case, OLPC has released a newer-yet build which I've now
> installed, instead of fooling with upgrading the old build.
>
> Thank you for your assistance and explanation,  mikus

No problems. You'll also see this with openssl and the kernel (if OLPC
was using an upstream Fedora kernel that is).

Peter