Bug 216967

Summary:	yum install kernel, installed 32- AND 64-bit kernels
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrew Cagney <cagney>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	dwmw2, grahal
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Hardware:	powerpc
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Cagney 2006-11-22 22:08:30 UTC

Description of problem:

In addressing another bug, typed:
yum install kernel, it installed both 32- and 64-bit kernels simultaneously. 
After that machine was a right mess - deleting the 32-bit kernel deleted the
only initrd thingie file.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2006-11-22 22:36:18 UTC

1. how does having multiple kernels installed make the machine a problem?
2. is there some other 'more correct' behavior?

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2006-11-23 07:25:25 UTC

These are multiple kernels with the same n-v-r but just different architectures.
And since only one of them works, yes it's a problem.

Doesn't yum a have special-case to avoid installing more than one kernel, so it
doesn't install both x86_64 and i386 kernels or both ppc and ppc64 kernels
simultaneously?

Comment 3 Andrew Cagney 2006-11-23 15:04:18 UTC

This resulted in a reboot loading the 32-bit kernel I believe; not good.

Comment 4 Seth Vidal 2008-03-12 13:56:43 UTC

In current yum you can set multilib_policy=best in your yum.conf to make it use
the ppc32 arch ONLY unless you explicitly specify ppc64. This should ameliorate
the problem if not outright fix it.