[CentOS] latest kernel - version question

Sun Jan 9 22:36:18 UTC 2011
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>


On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:31:19 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi List,
>> just doing my weekly yum update and noticed that the kernel is 
>> designated .i686 but the headers package is .i386??
>> surely the headers should match the kernel geometry that it was compiled 
>> for?
>> confused.
> 
> The headers package contains no compiled code -- it only contains
> source code (.h files).  As such it is processor netural.  It really
> could be '.noarch', but the version of rpmbuild shipped with CentOS 5.5
> does not allow the creation of .noarch sub-packages packages.
> 
> The kernel itself is optimized for the i686 processor.  It is possible
> to custom build a kernel for the i586, i486, or i386 if you really have
> a processor that old.
Thanks I like to learn and this helps. 
> 
>> TIA
>> Rob
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