On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:06 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > Ok, I require clarification. My yum updates does not include
> > the kernel-2.6.1-33.fc7 because in the repos there is not i386 kernel
> > with this version even though they are i386 repos. On the other hand
> > the kernel-headers-2.6.1-33.fc7 was installed because this is a
> > designated as a i386 rpm.
> >
> > Is there a rule covering this? Why are others getting this later kernel
> > version installed?
>
> Kernel headers doesn't contain anything that is different between 586 or
> 686, it's just modified header files from the kernel source.
>
> Check and see what arch your kernel packages are really tagged as like this
>
> # rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release} %{arch}\n" kernel
> kernel-2.6.22-0.5.rc7.git2.fc8 i686
> kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686
> kernel-2.6.23-0.44.rc0.git16.fc8 i686
>
> Is it possible these "ez" packages have confused matters?
>
> -Andy
>
They certainly have as I said in my later post, so all is clear now.
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