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

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, 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>
>[...]
> ---> 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

What is the architecture of the corresponding kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 
package?  Check the architecture with rpm with the queryformat option. 
(Sorry, not sitting at a Fedora machine just now to check the exact format 
you need.  Something like 'rpm -q --queryformat "%{ARCH}\n" 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6'.)

The kernel-devel and kernel package architectures have to match.  I think 
yum is doing what it thinks is the right thing based on what you have 
installed.

So boot to another installed kernel, remove the kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 
and kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 packages, and reinstall them.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs