Don Dixon said:
>On bugzilla, the report has been closed with:
>
> "athlon is always a i686 for the kernel"
True, the kernel reports it as a i686. If you want to know what package
is installed use:
rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{ARCH}\n' kernel
> So, what I am now wondering about is updates. I need to know which
> level of RPM packages to
> load. For instance with kernels, would I choose
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.athlon.rpm or
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm?
If you have an athlon, use the athlon. That is the best fit. As others
have posted it is a non-issue for the 2.6 series.
> And with glibc, do I choose
> glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
> or glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm.
Again, best fit, so use the i686 one. You can use the above command to
find what glibc you have installed too. Just change "kernel" to "glibc".
> Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Use a dep solver (yum, up2date, etc.) and it will take care of the issue
for you.
--
William Hooper
