On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:31:19 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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