[ATrpms-users] FC6 kernel update

[Jeff Guerdat]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>>> Yum just offered me the 586 version of the latest Suspend2 kernel:
>> In the FWIW department, yum offers me the 686 version now that it's
>> available.  Is this somehow normal behavior for yum if only one update
>> is available?
> 
> That's what the exactarch parameter is for. The normal behaviour is:
> 
> exactarch=1 (default): don't replace arch=x with arch=y even if the
> 		       upgrading package is newer.
> exactarch=0: don't care about archs
> 
> So what you describe is the behaviour of exactarch=0. I know that you
> haven't set that so, I'm just describing what should be the case. If
> yum is not behaving as exactarch=1, then there is either some bug in
> yum's code or we misread the man page and it would need a
> clarification.

I'm not going to muck with it anymore at the moment.  I'll try switching 
things around next time an update is offered to try to gain more 
insight.  Once I nail it down, I'll bug list it...

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

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