Re: [Cooker] rpm and nptl

[Michael Scherer]

Le Mardi 31 Mai 2005 15:54, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> After looking bug report (official of not), it seems disabling ntpl was a
> very bad idea, on ppc rpm hang, some poeple experience same issue on i586.
>
> Christian solve the issue by disabling nptl on ppc.
>
> I disabled nptl for poeple having old kernel, as these kernel (< 2.4.20)
> are no longer supported (was in Mandrake 9.1), I will update rpm to -6mdk
> with the normal nptl behaviour (aka enable).

Does all system support ntpl ?
I remember we have seen some problem on old pentium or cyrix processor back to 
10.0 days, and I think it was linked to ntpl ( but I am not sure ).

> I plan to add a patch to solve a current issue I explain here:
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2005-May/000428.html
>
> In summary, if the transaction have a color (the case on 64bits), the
> architecture is not check. So this allow to install a ppc package on amd64.
> Gustavo Nimeyer confirm removing the "&& !tscolor" should works.
>
> If you found problem about building rpm on other arch than amd64/i586, it's
> time to said me.

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Michael Scherer