kernel-devel-i586

[Andy Green]

John Poelstra wrote:
> Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 01:41 PM Pacific Time:
>> John Poelstra wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel
>>>> you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel,
>>>> if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong?
>>
>> cat /proc/version
>>
>> will say SMP for i686 and .. err.. something else... (i586?) for i586 
>> builds.  And that is coming straight out of the kernel itself.
>>
>> Another way:
>>
>> modinfo ext3
>>
>> should show i686 as part of the vermagic near the end.

> I think it is a bug: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233370
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00407.html

So what were the results of the tests above?  Also try

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n" | grep kernel

and you might find that one or more of your installed *kernels* is 
i586... that was an anaconda bug in FC6.  In that case yum installing 
the i586 kernel-devel is understandable, not a bug.

-Andy