YUM won't give me the correct kernel-devel package

[Kam Leo]

On 1/11/07, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I updated my kernel with 'yum install kernel'. Now I want to install the
>   corresponding kernel-devel package. When I run 'uname -a', I get
>
> Linux proteus 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:19 EST 2006 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I assume this means I want the 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 i686 version of
> kernel-devel.
>
> When I run 'yum search kernel-devel', I get the following choices:
>
> kernel-devel.i586  2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core
> kernel-devel.i686  2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core
> kernel-devel.i586  2.6.18-1.2868.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i686  2.6.18-1.2868.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i586  2.6.18-1.2849.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i686  2.6.18-1.2849.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i586  2.6.18-1.2869.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i686  2.6.18-1.2869.fc6  updates
> kernel-devel.i586  2.6.18-1.2849.fc6  installed
                      ^
                      |
    This tells me that you have the i586 kernel installed. Do "rpm -q
kernel" and
    see if this is not the case. (By the way this is a known bug in
the FC6 installer.)

    You need is to download the i686 kernel, perform a "rpm -ivh
kernel-*.i686.fc6.rpm",
     and reboot with the new kernel.

> It looks to me like the one I want is
>
> kernel-devel.i686  2.6.18-1.2869.fc6  updates
>
> When I run 'yum install kernel-devel.i686', the only choice I get is
>
> kernel-devel  i686  2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core
>
> How do I tell yum that I want the 2869 build version from the updates
> repo? I tried several things, but couldn't seem to find the right
> combination.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Robinson
>