[ATrpms-users] FC6 kernel update

[Jeff Guerdat]

It's b-a-a-a-c-k...

Yum just offered me the 586 version of the latest Suspend2 kernel:

=============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository 
Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
  kernel-suspend2         i586       2.6.18-1.2868_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 
  atrpms             15 M
Updating:
  kernel-suspend2-devel   i586       2.6.18-1.2868_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 
  atrpms            4.6 M

I just rechecked and the "exactarch=1" setting in yum.conf is there.  I 
have the latest ATrpms config files installed.  All installed kernels 
are 686...

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:43:04PM -0500, Jeff Guerdat wrote:
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't care if I have to wait for the 686 kernel, it's just that I 
>>>> shouldn't be offered a 585 version.
>>> Yes, you are right, that shouldn't happen, what did you use?
>>> yum/apt/smart? I think yum is careful about arch changes.
>>>
>>> The true "buglet" is in the repo, as I updated the repo while the
>>> kernel packages are being built, e.g. only some were done at the time
>>> of the update. This sometimes cannot be avoided with the current build
>>> system as it would require to have another staging area to release
>>> built packages in groups, e.g. hold back all kernel-suspend2 package
>>> updates and push them later all together.
>> Just checked and the 686 versions are now available and yum selected 
>> these.  It's still not clear to me why a 586 version would have been 
>> chosen - is that simply because the 686 version wasn't there yet?
> 
> yum shouldn't do that, do you have exactarch set to 0? The man page
> says (yum.conf(5)):
> 
>        exactarch
>               Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. Set to ‘1’ to make yum update only update the
>               architectures of packages that you have installed. ie: with this
>               enabled yum will not install an i686 package to update  an  i386
>               package. Default is ‘1’.


-- 
Jeff Guerdat

I knew I was going to take the wrong train so I left early.
                                  (attributed to Yogi Berra)