> My thought is that "multiple" isn't as important as "any". We need the > ability to install any kernel-devel of a specific target architecture, > version and release. > > apt is able to install any specific version of a package with "apt-get > install kernel-VERSION-RELEASE" even if the one you are specifying is > not the newest. Is yum able to do this too? should work just fine. all the ver-rel.arch options are able to be specified on the cli. If you started using yum instead of apt you might learn that faster. -sv