[Yum] weird kernel install bug

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 19:24 -0700, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > > Nope.
> > > 
> > > I originally had athlon kernels on this sytem, but switched to i686
> > > for other reasons.
> > 
> > cat /etc/rpm/platform
> 
> Non existant. I checked another system and it did have a /etc/rpm/platform
> file.
> 
> So I tried putting i686-redhat-linux in it and then yum was happy.
> 
> I also tried athlon-redhat-linux and I received the same weird behaviour
> as before.
> 

ding ding, hence the confusion w/the installed kernels

put the athlon-redhat-linux in there
then set exactarch=0 in your /etc/yum.conf

see what happens.

-sv