On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:40 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > A day or so ago, I flipped the switch and killed off the 586 specific > kernel, by making the 686 kernel bootable on older machines. > Turns out it isn't that easy however. > Rpm will refuse to install the 686 kernel a 586, because it checks > the arch.. > > sudo rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc8.i686.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > package kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc8 is intended for a i686 architecture > > > (Oddly, the 586 kernel uname is reporting itself as 686 already, > which I don't quite understand.. > Linux equinox 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:11:19 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) > > Anyway.. To 'solve' this, I think I'm going to have to make the 686 > kernel package an 'i386' package. > > Does anyone see anything flawed with this approach? > > (Modulo problems with yum doing exactarch matches and upgrades being > more of a nightmare than usual). so, umm we're going to have users 'ugprading' from kernel.i586 to kernel.i386? Is that right? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
