[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

[Ross S. W. Walker]

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum 
> standpoint (as far
> > as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this 
> is beyond
> > the control of yum.  As someone else mentioned, taking a 
> look at your
> > ~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
> 
> It was empty.
> 
> > Also, could you post the output of:
> > 
> >   rpm -q --queryformat 
> '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
> 
> kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
> kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
> kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
> 
> The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.

Bob,

What's the output of,

# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm

The contents of,

# cat /etc/rpm/platform

And the output of,

# rpm --eval '%_arch'

Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place of rpm with,

# rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm

Just some more things to try,

-Ross

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