[CentOS] Re: Yum not updating kernel

[Scott Silva]

on 2/25/2008 9:25 PM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following:
> Bob Taylor wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>>> 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
>> rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386
> 
> Good
> 
>>> The contents of,
>>>
>>> # cat /etc/rpm/platform
>> i386-redhat-linux
> 
> Good
Shouldn't this be i686-redhat-linux ?


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