Changes between Version 23 and Version 24 of RpmHowToEndUsers

Timestamp:

Apr 7, 2016, 5:48:27 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Silvan Scherrer

Comment:

changing default platform, adding a note about to old os2-base rpm

RpmHowToEndUsers

@@ -64 +64 @@
 == Platform selection for binaries ==
 
-The default base architecture setting for RPM/YUM is the i386 platform; if you own a i686 CPU (PentiumPro and above), you can tell YUM to inspect i686 package list first, and fallback to i386 if none found.
-To enable i686, create a 'platform' text file in your %UNIXROOT%\etc\rpm directory with the following text in it:
-{{{
-i686-OS/2-OS/2
-}}}
-Binaries are getting built also for Pentium4 and above processors, use the following text to enable this:
+The default base architecture setting for RPM/YUM is the i686 platform; if you own a Pentium4 CPU (and above), you can tell YUM to inspect P4 package list first, and fallback to i686 if none found.
+To enable P4, create a 'platform' text file in your %UNIXROOT%\etc\rpm directory with the following text in it:
 {{{
 pentium4-OS/2-OS/2
 }}}
-Access to pentium4 packages requires the latest YUM package.
+Access to pentium4 packages requires the latest YUM package.[[BR]]
+'''If YUM doesn't find any packages for you and you never added a platform file, you have a too old os2-base package. To overcome that please do a'''
+{{{
+yum update os2-base
+}}}
 
 Additional information concerning the platform file may be found in [http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2002-June/msg00082.html this announcement] from the rpm mailing list.