--- seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On
Fri,
>
> I looked over the code on exactarch to make sure I
> am remembering
> correctly:
>
> if you set exactarch=1 in the config file then the
> only way the update
> gets marked as existing is if both the pkg name and
> the pkg arch are
> identical to what you have installed. Otherwise
> there is no update.
>
> If you want to test this and see what's going on
> run:
>
> yum -d 5 update
>
> look for:
> Inexact match in complex for kernel
>
> that should tell you more about what is going on.
>
> -sv
>
>
I don't seem to be getting any lines that say "Inexact
match in complex for kernel" when running yum -d 5
update.
Here is some system information:
# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE}
%{ARCH}\n"|grep "kernel "
kernel 2.4.9 e.25 i686
[root@dba3 root]# yum list updates
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
2.1
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Name Arch
Version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel i386
2.4.9-e.27
# grep kernel /var/cache/yum/base/header.info
0:kernel-doc-2.4.9-e.27.i386=RPMS.upd/kernel-doc-2.4.9-e.27.i386.rpm
0:kernel-2.4.9-e.27.i386=RPMS.upd/kernel-2.4.9-e.27.i386.rpm
0:kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.27.i686=RPMS.upd/kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.27.i686.rpm
0:kernel-source-2.4.9-e.27.i386=RPMS.upd/kernel-source-2.4.9-e.27.i386.rpm
0:kernel-BOOT-2.4.9-e.27.i386=RPMS.upd/kernel-BOOT-2.4.9-e.27.i386.rpm
1:kernel-utils-2.4-6.i386=RPMS.cds/kernel-utils-2.4-6.i386.rpm
0:kernel-summit-2.4.9-e.27.i686=RPMS.upd/kernel-summit-2.4.9-e.27.i686.rpm
0:kernel-debug-2.4.9-e.27.i686=RPMS.upd/kernel-debug-2.4.9-e.27.i686.rpm
1:kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10.i386=RPMS.cds/kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10.i386.rpm
0:kernel-headers-2.4.9-e.27.i386=RPMS.upd/kernel-headers-2.4.9-e.27.i386.rpm
# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
exactarch=1
[base]
name=Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
baseurl=ftp://ftp-server/linux/redhat/2.1as/$basearch/
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