On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:23:45AM +0200, Javier Palacios wrote: > > Ok, so the reason we have consolidated on x86 and x86_64 (not i386 or > > i686) is to ensure that we don't break things unexpectedly with respect > > to yum. There i386 is incorrect there as it will not pull in i686 > > kernel packages, so there we need i686, which is why the internal > > represenation is stored as x86. And since we sometimes compare the > > arches of distros with the arches of repo objects they should be stored > > the same way. > > Should I understand that x86 is the canonical name for i386? The import code > did transform x86 into i386, so I guessed the latter is the good one. But your > paragraph points that pxegen does the right transformation and that the real > bug > was in action_import. If that is the case, let me correct the patch before > even > thinking of apply them, as it comes from a misunderstanding.
In Fedora/RHEL world i386 means more or less ia32. In kernel/rpm speech i686 is a subarchitecture of i386. yum/anaconda on i386 do query the system to decide on whether to pull in i586 vs i686 vs athlon packages for kernels/glibc (well it did, most of the athlon stuff has been consolidated into i686 by now, but eleder RHEL like RHEL3 still have this distinction). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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