RE: Yum not updating kernel

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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> Bob Taylor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum 
> > standpoint (as far
> > > as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this 
> > is beyond
> > > the control of yum.  As someone else mentioned, taking a 
> > look at your
> > > ~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
> > 
> > It was empty.
> > 
> > > Also, could you post the output of:
> > > 
> > >   rpm -q --queryformat 
> > '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
> > 
> > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
> > kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
> > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
> > 
> > The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
> 
> Bob,
> 
> What's the output of,
> 
> # rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm

rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386

> The contents of,
> 
> # cat /etc/rpm/platform

i386-redhat-linux

> And the output of,
> 
> # rpm --eval '%_arch'

i386

> Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place of rpm with,

I ran yum remove yum. I did not remove rpm nor did an rpm --force.

-- 
Bob Taylor


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