[Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486

[Geoff Burling]

I saw in last week's LWN (I don't have a subscription to this fine
website, so I'm forced to read their updates when they open them to
freeloaders like me a week later) that RH has dropped support for
the 486 processor with version 8.0. See the following link:

http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4456

This affects the RULE project because (unless I missed an important
email somewhere) the tools created assumes that the user is
installing from the current RH source media.

So what does the RULE group want to do about this? Is there a
kernel RPM compiled for i386/i486 that can be used as a drop-in
replacement for RH's rpm? Or will this decision make the rest of the
RH rpms unusable on 486s? Does this mean I have to learn how to
build RPMs -- something I should learn, but have been avoiding --
& offer the pacakges to the RULE project?

Then again, I figure since the rest of you are obviously much smarter
& more hard working than me, there already exists a solution.

Geoff




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