Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
--- Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Walser wrote on Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at > 05:44:09AM -0700 : > > > > 2) Mandrake still has incorrect buildarchtranslate > > lines in the system /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc, > translating > > everything to i586. > > It's a > standard. You as the FOR MANDRAK

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem you run into is some people building > RPMs aren't going to > know this and will end up distributing i686 or > Athlon or whatever > archs... Oh, one more thing I wanted to add. *If* that script I mentioned that creates an RPM build environ

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem you run into is some people building > RPMs aren't going to > know this and will end up distributing i686 or > Athlon or whatever > archs... >From the package names you get, it's obvious which arch the build is for. If you were to distribu

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Todd Lyons
David Walser wrote on Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:44:09AM -0700 : > > 2) Mandrake still has incorrect buildarchtranslate > lines in the system /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc, translating > everything to i586. No, it's not wrong. It's a default. It's a standard. You as the sysadmin are free to change the defa

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:18:29AM -0700, David Walser wrote: > It was actually changed by mistake, but that's been > one of the excuses to defend it. If someone's gonna > rebuild an SRPM, more than likely optimization one of > the top reasons. Anyway, /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc is the > *system* rpmrc,

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Tarax
good source of info is #mdk-athlon on irc.openprojects.net ragards Arkitekt Le Lundi 23 Septembre 2002 11:32, Stéphane Teletchéa a écrit : > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled > for i586 ... > > Stef -- Future Is Free, Fight Against Bill & Friends Linux

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
--- "Gregory K. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 September 2002 10:11, David Walluck > wrote: > > It's definitely wrong. Just because Mandrake is > built for i586 doesn't > > mean we want to force every arch to i586 (or > i686). In the case of > > Athlon, it may actually be a downg

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Monday 23 September 2002 10:11, David Walluck wrote: > It's definitely wrong. Just because Mandrake is built for i586 doesn't > mean we want to force every arch to i586 (or i686). In the case of > Athlon, it may actually be a downgrade. Personally, I force mine to > build for athon in my ~/.rpm

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walluck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Walser wrote: | 1) RPM can't recognize Athlon, it recognizes it as | i686, so if you have an Athlon you have to | buildarchtranslate i686 to Athlon, which you can do in | /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc Not sure here, or else uname should report different

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
Le Lundi 23 Septembre 2002 14:33, Gregory K. Meyer a écrit : > On Monday 23 September 2002 05:32, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled > > for i586 ... > > > > Stef > > If you look in your /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file, you'll see a sect

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Gregory K. Meyer
On Monday 23 September 2002 05:32, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled > for i586 ... > > Stef If you look in your /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file, you'll see a section that looks like this: ###

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
Seems my first e-mail fell down a well. --- Stéphane Teletchéa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rpm -ba -buildarch athlon --sign nvidia.spec > > > Funny > > I wonder why it is not DEFAULT ??? There's two issues here: 1) RPM can't recognize Athlon, it recognizes it as i686, so if you have

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
Le Lundi 23 Septembre 2002 13:59, Brook Humphrey a écrit : > On Monday 23 September 2002 04:46 am, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > > I agree that, but wonder why the rpm is written is /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/i586 > > instead of /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/i686 or /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/athlon ? > > > > Stef > > rpm -ba -b

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Monday 23 September 2002 04:46 am, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > > I agree that, but wonder why the rpm is written is /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/i586 > instead of /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/i686 or /usr/src/RPMS/RPM/athlon ? > > Stef rpm -ba -buildarch athlon --sign nvidia.spec -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
--- Stéphane Teletchéa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because you aren't really compiling the driver, > the driver is in binary > > form, you only compile the code which glues the > driver to the kernel.. Correct, the GLX is already compiled, just being repackaged, and the kernel module ignores y

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
Le Lundi 23 Septembre 2002 12:26, gabor farkas a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:32:54AM +0200, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled > > for i586 ... > > i'm not an expert on this, but i think that a simple > > rpm --rebuild s

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread gabor farkas
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:32:54AM +0200, Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled for > i586 ... i'm not an expert on this, but i think that a simple rpm --rebuild something.src.rpm isn't enough, you have to tell rpm the target com

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
Le Lundi 23 Septembre 2002 11:32, vous avez écrit : > I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled > for i586 ... > > Stef May be normal, after all, everything is i586 in Mdk ... ? Stef (bis)

Re: [Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread David Walser
There's two issues here. 1) RPM still can't recognize athlon, so you have to buildarchtranslate i686 to athlon. 2) Mandrake still has incorrect buildarchtranslate lines in /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc and i686 is being translated to i586 instead of i686. --- Stéphane Teletchéa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[Cooker] Athlon XP still recognized as i586 !

2002-09-23 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
I did some recompilation of src rpm (nvidia), and they are still compiled for i586 ... Stef