Bug 198907

Summary: kernel-devel i586 is installed for i686 kernel and vice versa
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Pribyl <covex>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Adam Pribyl 2006-07-14 15:32:48 UTC
Description of problem:
Having i586 system I tried to install kernel-devel headers with 
yum install kernel-devel
yum chooses for some reason to install i686 even thought the kernel arch is i586.
rpm -q --queryformat '%{ARCH} %{NAME}\n' kernel-devel kernel
i686 kernel-devel
i586 kernel
i586 kernel


On different i686 system using same yum command resulted in kernel-devel for
i586 to be installed.

I did not found a reason for this behaivour.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5.i586.rpm
 kernel-devel-2.6.1~.2145_FC5.i686.rpm
 yum-2.6.1-0.fc5.noarch.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on i586 system: rpm -e kernel-devel
2. yum install kernel-devel

  
Actual results:
yum chooses to install i686 kernel-devel rpm which does not fit the kernel
architecture.

Expected results:
yum installs i586 kernel-devel rpm

Additional info:
This may be a problem of yum not of the kernel-devel package.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-07-26 14:32:00 UTC
What is in /etc/rpm/platform?

Comment 2 Adam Pribyl 2006-07-31 10:18:16 UTC
Those were set incorretly. Probably by copiing install from different platform.