On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 07:27, Mike Watson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I switched my Fedora hard drive from one machine to another. The first > was an AMD K6-2 (i586), the second was an AMD Athlon XP 2800. All went > well except for one thing---up2date still thinks I have an i586 instead > of an Athlon. There is a kernel update available, but up2date picks > the wrong one. > > In addition, I can't use RPM to instead the rpm directly. I get a > message about the file requiring an Athlon architecture and RPM quits. > > How can I change the architecture? Why does RPM now refuse to install. > I can't use --force either. rpm -ivh --ignorearch kernel-*.athlon.rpm Should work as a temporary fix, but there are references to the machine's arch in /usr/lib/rpm/macros, and I'm not sure of the correct way to fix it. -- Chris Kloiber Red Hat, Inc.
