odd? Or not?

[Scott van Looy]

On Oct 25 Jeff Vian did spake thusly:

> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:24 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> just asked Yum to install the kernel-devel package. Why has it offered to
>> install both architectures? Is this correct? I'm new to x86_64 ;)
>>
>> Dependencies Resolved
>>
>> =============================================================================
>>   Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
>> Size
>> =============================================================================
>> Installing:
>>   kernel-devel     i686     2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core   4.6 M
>>   kernel-devel     x86_64   2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core   4.8 M
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>> =============================================================================
>>
> Do you have both kernels installed?

No

> If so and you want only one architecture you need to remove the one you
> do not want.
>   yum remove kernel.i686
> Once that is done and you have verified you are booted from the one you
> kept with uname, then running "yum install kernel-devel" should give
> only the one arch.

It doesn't

> If you installed the x86_64 arch it should not have installed the i686
> _unless_ you did it as an upgrade from an _already installed_ i686 arch.
>
> That is one of the gotchas on upgrades vs clean installs.

It was a clean install.
I installed and then just removed the i686 version

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