kernel-devel-i586

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 22 01:34:27 UTC 2007


Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:31 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 02:57 PM Pacific Time:
>>> 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.
> 
> I'm wondering why we still have this "bug" since the initial release of
> FC6? It's a fine "Howdy Do" for a new user to find themselves
> experiencing a rather large install error that is many months old.
> Cannot this be fixed and installed to the re-spin?? I mean, Damn. Ric

This is already fixed in the respin and was explicitly mentioned in the 
announcement.

Rahul




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