[18021] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.7: kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 21 10:06:05 2000
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To: Shamik Das <shamikd@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:53:05 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:06:00 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Some kludge in the update script should figure out which of the
> kernel rpms to install. :)
We discussed this very issue recently at a meeting. At some point we
will hack rpmupdate to downgrade i686 machines to i586/i486/i386 as
necessary. I don't know when it will happen. In the meantime, the
update can only support i686-class machines.
