Fedora Core 6 Test Update: kernel-2.6.18-1.2860.fc6

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 12:58 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fedora Test Update Notification
> FEDORA-2006-1403
> 2006-12-06
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Product     : Fedora Core 6
> Name        : kernel
> Version     : 2.6.18
> Release     : 1.2860.fc6
> Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
> Description :
> The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
> Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
> of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
> input and output, etc.

Installed this kernel to try the sata_promise bug-fix it incorporates
(which does work - finally got my SATA drive back under FC6); however,
encountered some strange behavior with yum.

Did

# yum --enable updates-testing install kernel

and in addition to the desired version, yum wanted to install the i586
kernel from core.  Added "--disable core" and got the new kernel I
wanted.  Rebooted and works OK but out of curiosity did

# yum install kernel

and was offered the i586 2849 kernel from updates corresponding to the
i686 version I already have installed:

# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686
kernel-2.6.18-1.2860.fc6.i686


# yum install kernel.i686

says "Nothing to do." as would be expected.

Couldn't find a yum Bugzilla entry on this problem.  Anyone else seen
this behavior?  Should this be bugzilled or am I misunderstanding
something?

Phil