The sins of the Father is visited upon the Son. YUM!

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 14:59 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> Check this out,,, trying to build my gspca driver module resulted in the
> complaint that I needed the kernel-source for my kernel.
> OK, So I'll just yum install... 
> 
> [root at iam gspcav1-20070110]# yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers
> <snippage>
> 
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set.
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.286 100% |=========================| 689 kB
> 00:28
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 set to be installed
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set.
> kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.289 100% |=========================| 714 kB
> 00:29
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 set to be installed
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-headers to pack into transaction set.
> kernel-headers-2.6.19-1.2 100% |=========================|  94 kB
> 00:04
> ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> /usr/lib/yum-plugins/kmdl.py:42: DeprecationWarning: getHdrList() will
> go away in a future version of Yum.
> 
>   for hdr in conduit.getRpmDB().getHdrList():
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 set to be installed
> <--!!!! HEP ME!
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be erased
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 set to be erased
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
> Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel-devel            i586 WTF?  2.6.18-1.2869.fc6  updates
> 4.6 M
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6  updates
> 4.7 M
> Updating:
>  kernel-headers          i386       2.6.19-1.2895.fc6  updates
> 698 k
> Removing:
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  installed
> 14 M
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.18-1.2868.fc6  installed
> 14 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      2 Package(s)
> Update       1 Package(s)
> Remove       2 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 10 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> 
> 
> So, I'll rip it out the i586 package again by the roots once it's
> installed, but I did this once before. Now it's BAAAAACK. 
> 
> I'm in Little Richard mode again, "Won't somebody HEP ME!?" :) Ric

Find all the kernel-*.i586 RPMs and "rpm -e" them.  Undoubtedly, you
still have the original 586 kernel that was erroneously installed by
anaconda.  The only way you'd get an i586 kernel-devel is if you have
a 586 kernel installed.

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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
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