Bug 21214

Summary:	architecture "aliases" are not used
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	kirkjt
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Hardware:	i686
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Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-11-22 01:06:44 UTC

even if running RedHat 7.0 on a i686 architecture, the RHN Update Agent
would only use the i386 versions of the packages

there is a :

<member>
<name>architecture</name>
<value><string>i686</string></value>
</member>

entry on /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid

but the glibc-2.2-5.i386.rpm would be installed instead of the
glibc-2.2-5.i686.rpm that is best suited for this "architecture"

to be fair, i am not sure if this is a bug on the up2date scripts or in the
way the up2date "metadata" is build from the available updates

hope i could be of more help

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-11-28 16:54:19 UTC

Cristian:  are you sure you are doing architecture scoring right?

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-11-28 19:52:05 UTC

*** Bug 21237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2000-11-28 20:05:25 UTC

*** Bug 21237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-12-19 01:48:03 UTC

FWIW latest glibc (2.2-9) errata is not "correctly" updated with the up2date
agent.

the "correct" rpm can be installed using :

  rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2-9-${ARCH}.rpm (where ARCH={i586,i686}

as a workaround

Comment 5 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-12-23 07:32:16 UTC

no more workaround AFAIK, latest up2date update (2.1.7-1) selected the right
glibc architecture (i686) on a i686 system

Comment 6 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-12-23 07:36:19 UTC

even if not on the "Bug IDs fixed" on :

  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-138.html

this is already fixed