yum vs ppc64

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Fri Apr 29 03:00:29 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 20:49 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I did an install on a G5 from the rawhide "ppc" distribution, which was fine.
> (I hit the kernel-smp problem but got around that.)
> 
> However, now when I try "yum upgrade", it goes around looking for ppc64
> repositories and trying to replace everything with the ppc64 packages.  I
> assume that this is not what I really want.  I would expect yum to upgrade
> to the latest flavor of the same stuff I got from doing the install.
> 
> What do other people with ppc64 machines do to update?

cat /etc/rpm/platform
ppc-redhat-linux

cat /etc/rpm/macros

%_transaction_color   3

Works on fish.  If those weren't setup properly can you file a bug.

Paul




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