Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
While attempting to install anything .i686 ontop of anything .i386, rpm screams bloody murder about conflicting files. Can I safely remove the .i386 version and install the .i686 one? My most recent attempt have been of glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm and kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm - both rpms are

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Ashley, If you remove your glibc rpm, then the box is as good as hosed. Don't even try it. -- Jonathan On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:07, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: While attempting to install anything .i686 ontop of anything .i386, rpm screams bloody murder about conflicting files. Can I

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 21:23 29.10.2002, Jonathan M. Slivko said: [snip] Ashley, If you remove your glibc rpm, then the box is as good as hosed. Don't even try it. [snip] Hmm... on my box (RH 7.2 SMP), rpm -q --whatrequires glibc

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
It doesn't work on 6.2, maybe they changed it in 7.2. *shrug* -- Jonathan On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:35, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: At 21:23 29.10.2002, Jonathan M. Slivko said: [snip] Ashley, If you remove your glibc rpm, then the box is as good as

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: on my box (RH 7.2 SMP), rpm -q --whatrequires glibc returns: On my stripped down 7.3 I get: # rpm -q --whatrequires glibc anonftp-4.0-9 glibc-devel-2.2.5-39 There doesn't seem to be a kernel-live-module that requires glibc. That also makes sense, IMHO. As

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: on my box (RH 7.2 SMP), rpm -q --whatrequires glibc returns: On my stripped down 7.3 I get: # rpm -q --whatrequires glibc anonftp-4.0-9 glibc-devel-2.2.5-39 You know on my not so stripped down

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Samuel Flory
Bret Hughes wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: on my box (RH 7.2 SMP), rpm -q --whatrequires glibc returns: On my stripped down 7.3 I get: # rpm -q --whatrequires glibc anonftp-4.0-9 glibc-devel-2.2.5-39 You know

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Samuel Flory
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: While attempting to install anything .i686 ontop of anything .i386, rpm screams bloody murder about conflicting files. Can I safely remove the .i386 version and install the .i686 one? My most recent attempt have been of glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm and

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:06, Samuel Flory wrote: Nearly verything depends on glibc. Most of the rpm have dep by file. Example: [rootsflory fdisk]# rpm -q --whatrequires /sbin/ldconfig |wc -l 209 [rootsflory fdisk]# rpm -qf /sbin/ldconfig glibc-2.2.93-5 [rootsflory fdisk]#

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 23:38 29.10.2002, Bret Hughes said: [snip] Nearly verything depends on glibc. Most of the rpm have dep by file. Example: [rootsflory fdisk]# rpm -q --whatrequires /sbin/ldconfig |wc -l 209 [rootsflory fdisk]# rpm -qf /sbin/ldconfig

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: While attempting to install anything .i686 ontop of anything .i386, rpm screams bloody murder about conflicting files. Can I safely remove the .i386 version and install the .i686 one? My most recent attempt have been of

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm Should do the job. Thats assuming that the box doesn't get hosed during the upgrade :\ -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX/IT Consultant phone: 212-663-1109 PGP Key: None

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 00:21 30.10.2002, Jonathan M. Slivko said: [snip] rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm Should do the job. Thats assuming that the box doesn't get hosed during the upgrade :\

Re: Once again, .i386 vs .i686

2002-10-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:21, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm Should do the job. Thats assuming that the box doesn't get hosed during the upgrade :\ That's true of any glibc rpm upgrade, regardless of whether the upgrade is