[syslog-ng] syslog-ng open source edition for intel based x86_64 machine

Fegan, Joe Joe.Fegan at hp.com
Fri Oct 30 16:45:54 CET 2009


Here's an example where I deliberately rename an rpm file to a stupid value that is unrelated to its real name or contents. You can see that yum has no problem figuring out the real content of the file and that it's an upgrade for an rpm called mx50-diags that is already on the system.

[root at atlas1 ~]# yum list mx50-diags -q
Installed Packages
mx50-diags.x86_64                        3.0.0-7450                         installed
[root at atlas1 ~]# 
[root at atlas1 ~]# ls -l *rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2148776 Oct 30 15:37 mx50-diags-3.0.0-7455.x86_64.rpm
[root at atlas1 ~]# 
[root at atlas1 ~]# mv mx50-diags-3.0.0-7455.x86_64.rpm banana.magoo.rpm
[root at atlas1 ~]# 
[root at atlas1 ~]# ls -l *rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2148776 Oct 30 15:37 banana.magoo.rpm
[root at atlas1 ~]# 
[root at atlas1 ~]# yum localupdate banana.magoo.rpm
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining banana.magoo.rpm: mx50-diags-3.0.0-7455.x86_64
Marking banana.magoo.rpm as an update to mx50-diags-3.0.0-7450.x86_64
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mx50-diags.x86_64 0:3.0.0-7455 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=====================================================================================
 Package            Arch           Version            Repository                Size
=====================================================================================
Updating:
 mx50-diags         x86_64         3.0.0-7455         banana.magoo.rpm         2.0 M

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       1 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
[root at atlas1 ~]# 


-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Fegan, Joe
Sent: 30 October 2009 15:10
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng open source edition for intel based x86_64 machine

I don't think yum cares about the names of rpm files - all of the important details, including the target architecture, are embedded in in the file, in the rpm header and yum uses that, regardless of the name of the file.

Joe.

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Peter Östlin
Sent: 30 October 2009 10:35
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng open source edition for intel based x86_64 machine

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 20:07 +0530, Jain, Vaibhav (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the balabit site syslog-ng(open source edition) is available only
>> for amd64 and i386 platform. Is it available for intel based x86_64
>> machine ?
>
> we only have one binary for both amd64 and x86_64. it is named amd64 in
> our internal build system and would  need a lot of work to change that.


Does your build system support creating source rpm's? The main problem
with the naming scheme as I understand it is that yum do not like the
amd64 arch. So if you could gernerate source rpm's it would be pretty
easy to rebuild.

Cheers
/Peter Östlin
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