yum / rpm dependency broken in F7 ?

[David Boles]

on 7/8/2007 4:22 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 20:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> I sure wish all the messages printed the .i386 or the .x86_64 on the
>> end of the rpm package name so it was more obvious what was
>> happening :-).
> 
> Yes, with kernels too.  The old "it installed i586 instead of i686" bug
> is quite a pain to resolve.  The usual rpm -qa kernel query gives no
> hint which processor type kernel is installed.  You have to dig a little
> deeper to work out why your i686 system is wanting to install an i586
> kernel module during some update, and wanting to re-install other
> software that's already installed (it wants a different processor
> version of the same thing, but doesn't actually say so).

uname -m

man uname

-- 

  David


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