seth vidal wrote : > Yes - if you had run yum update kernel - it wouldn't have done it - but > yum install kernel said: "oh the user wants to install the latest > kernel, well, the latest, available, kernel is thisver and the best arch > for thisver is i586 (b/c i686 is already installed), oh the user must > know better than us, let's install the i586 version" > > It's a FIXME I have labeled that needs to be corrected soon. All I need > to do, really, is say - if you're installing and you already have > foo.i686 installed then any other non-biarch archs of that package are > marked as not-available. > > That's really what it comes down to. OK, I understand now. But why was the exactarch=1 from my yum.conf ignored in this case? I don't mind that much the "user seems to think he's more clever than I am, let him do it" way of thinking, but for the arch, unless it's explicitly given (i.e. kernel.i586), then yum probably shouldn't think about changing it, not on the packages I'd list as "exactarchpkgs" (and that would be kernels and glibc at the very least). Matthias -- Matthias Saou World Trade Center ------------- Edificio Norte 4 Planta System and Network Engineer 08039 Barcelona, Spain Electronic Group Interactive Phone : +34 936 00 23 23
