> How will yum handle athlon downgrades to i686 or i386? Yes, there are > no such packages in download.fedora.redhat.com (other than FC1 > kernels), but such packages exist, and should the package maintainers > also have to rename their packages for changing the arch? > set exactarch=0 and yum will gladly 'downgrade' arch changes in packages. this is why I made it an option. -sv