kernel-devel-i586

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:31 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 02:57 PM Pacific Time:
> > John Poelstra wrote:
> >> Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 01:41 PM Pacific Time:
> >>> John Poelstra wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel
> >>>>> you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel,
> >>>>> if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong?
> >>>
> >>> cat /proc/version
> >>>
> >>> will say SMP for i686 and .. err.. something else... (i586?) for i586 
> >>> builds.  And that is coming straight out of the kernel itself.
> >>>
> >>> Another way:
> >>>
> >>> modinfo ext3
> >>>
> >>> should show i686 as part of the vermagic near the end.
> > 
> >> I think it is a bug: 
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233370
> >>
> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00407.html
> > 
> > So what were the results of the tests above?  Also try
> > 
> > rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n" | grep kernel
> > 
> > and you might find that one or more of your installed *kernels* is 
> > i586... that was an anaconda bug in FC6.  In that case yum installing 
> > the i586 kernel-devel is understandable, not a bug.

I'm wondering why we still have this "bug" since the initial release of
FC6? It's a fine "Howdy Do" for a new user to find themselves
experiencing a rather large install error that is many months old.
Cannot this be fixed and installed to the re-spin?? I mean, Damn. Ric

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