[Yum] Re: Yum error question

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Feb 25 14:42:26 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 09:38, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > I think I just realized what's going on, maybe
> > 
> > the custom-tag kernel is i686, isn't it?
> > 
> > so yum is doing the following:
> > 
> > it's seeing the i686 kernel and the other athlon kernels, it's saying,
> > what's the best you got, name+arch.
> > 
> > then it's comparing the available pkg of 2.4.18-24.7.x to the -17.7x
> > athlon kernel and saying - look at that the new kernel is newer,
> > ignoring the i686 custom tag.
> 
> Looks like you might be right. I did not realize that installing a
> different arch would mess with yum. Sorry.

it shouldn't. It's a bug. I've got a test fix.


> 
> [root at octopus root]# rpm -q --qf "%{name} %{version} %{release} %{arch}\n" kernel
> kernel 2.4.18 24.7.x.1.nano.tjc i386
> kernel 2.4.7 10 athlon
> kernel 2.4.18 17.7.x athlon
> kernel 2.4.9 21 athlon
> So does this mean that the answer here is to handle the kernel upgrades
> by hand or do you still consider this a bug?


I've figured out how to fix it - I'll have a tarball shortly.

Thanks for finding this case, it would have bit others eventually.

-sv

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