kernel.i586 set to be updated even though not i586

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 16:36:12 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:22:59AM -0700, stan wrote:
 > I'm using yum update to update my rawhide system.  It has the following 
 > kernel characteristics.
 > uname -a
 > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23-0.195.rc7.git3.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Sep 22 
 > 08:20:01 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 > 
 > I see that kernel.i586 is in the update list.  This seems like it might 
 > be a problem.  Shades of the Fedora Core 6 problem.

If you had a kernel.i586 installed at any point in the past
(say from the FC6 screwup), then it'll continue to recieve updates.

If you can reproduce this with an install of the current tree, that
would be worth filing a bug about.

	Dave

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