586 kernels.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 19:38:07 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:21:08PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:48:50PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:46 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 20 June 2007 14:44:54 seth vidal wrote:
> > > > > so, umm
> > > > > we're going to have users 'ugprading' from kernel.i586 to kernel.i386?
> > > > > Is that right?
> > > >
> > > > They'd be going from i686 to i386 too it would seem.
> > > >
> > > > My brain just screams that this is confusing, but I'm not coming up with any
> > > > hard problems yet. Can you do up a scratch build for us to play with Dave?
> > > >
> > >
> > > just so we're clear, yum won't 'upgrade' a kernel from i686 to i386 and
> > > let's not even start thinking about what this will mean for kernel
> > > modules.
> >
> > Yeah. The alternative is that I un-kill 586, and we continue shipping
> > that forever. (Or we just tell those 38 586 users to go make their
> > own spin).
>
> according to what jesse just said we're also talking about it for all of
> our i686 kernel users, too. Or was that mis-said?
Yes. because rpm won't install a 686 package on a 586.
Whereas i386 will install everywhere obviously
Dave
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