yum & kernel updates (rawhide-2.4/arjanv-2.6)

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> >  
> > [root at dreamcast root]# grep kernel-2.6 /var/cache/yum/kernel-arjanv/header.info 
> > 0:kernel-2.6.0-0.test7.1.57.i686=RPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.0-0.test7.1.57.i686.rpm
> > 0:kernel-2.6.0-0.test7.1.57.i586=RPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.0-0.test7.1.57.i586.rpm
> > 
> > The above 2 packages are not listed by 'yum list'
> 
> unless I'm missing it - there is no kernel- 2.6.0.blahlbalahl athlon is
> there?
> 
> yum will obey the exactarch=1 default in the yum.conf file -so unless
> there is a kernel.athlon rpm that is available and newer then it won't
> update to a different architecture.
> 
> set exactarch=0 and you should get kernel-2.6.0 in there.

Yes this appears to be the case. Changing 'exactarch' picks up the
i686 2.6 kernel.

Thanks,
Satish