Bug 259021

small correction. The actual results case fails because of conflicts (i686
kernel conflicts with the i586 kernel). The expected result should be that the
i686 module should be downloaded and installed.

What is in /etc/rpm/platform?

[dhaval@gondor ~]$ cat /etc/rpm/platform 
i686-redhat-linux
[dhaval@gondor ~]$

Could you also provide:
 yum list installed kernel

[dhaval@gondor ~]$ yum list installed kernel
Installed Packages
kernel.i686                              2.6.22.5-76.fc7        installed       
kernel.i686                              2.6.22.4-65.fc7        installed       
[dhaval@gondor ~]$ 

I assume that I'm having the same issue. I did a fairly standard F8 install,
this this:

yum install kernel-devel

I ended up with this:

rpm -q --queryformat %-{name}-%{version}-%{release}-%{arch}"\n" \
   kernel kernel-devel
kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i586
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i686

[swarren@esk ~]$ cat /etc/rpm/platform 
i686-redhat-linux

So now, /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build points at a non-existent directory.

[root@gondor ~]# yum install xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 0:8.42.3-7.lvn8.1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: fglrx-kmod >= 8.42.3 for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Processing Dependency: fglrx-kmod >= 8.42.3 for package: xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i586 0:8.42.3-7.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i586 = 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 for package:
kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.23.1-42.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.23.1-42.fc8 set to be installed
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 0:8.42.3-7.lvn8.1 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.23.1-42.fc8 set to be erased
---> Package kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.i586 0:8.42.3-7.lvn8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Removing:
 kernel                  i686       2.6.23.1-42.fc8  installed          45 M
Installing for dependencies:
 kernel                  i586       2.6.23.1-42.fc8  fedora             16 M
 kmod-fglrx-2.6.23.1-42.fc8  i586       8.42.3-7.lvn8    livna             539 k
 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx      i386       8.42.3-7.lvn8.1  livna              13 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      3 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       1 Package(s)         

Total download size: 29 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
[root@gondor ~]# 


This I just got on F8. So it still exists.

Can you test yum 3.2.8-1 that's in updates-testing right now? I think it might
have the desired result.

thanks

tested with yum 3.2.8-1. Same results

and once again:
yum list installed kernel\*

just to be sure your system hasn't been polluted already.

[dhaval@gondor ~]$ yum list installed kernel\*
Installed Packages
kernel.i686                              2.6.23.1-42.fc8        installed       
kernel.i686                              2.6.23.1-49.fc8        installed       
kernel-debug.i686                        2.6.23.1-42.fc8        installed       
kernel-debug.i686                        2.6.23.1-49.fc8        installed       
kernel-debug-devel.i686                  2.6.23.1-49.fc8        installed       
kernel-debug-devel.i686                  2.6.23.1-42.fc8        installed       
kernel-devel.i686                        2.6.23.1-42.fc8        installed       
kernel-devel.i686                        2.6.23.1-49.fc8        installed       
kernel-headers.i386                      2.6.23.1-49.fc8        installed       
[dhaval@gondor ~]$ 

I think I had a similar problem.

After the installation of Fedora 8 all the kernel updates were for i586 but my
machine is i686. I didn't check which kernel arch was originally installed, but
I assume it was i586 as /etc/yum.conf have exactarch=1. That wrong kernel arch
choosing gave me a lot of problems installing (non prebuild, but compiled)
kernel modules (nvidia, vmware) because the modules could not be loaded. Until
yesterday thanks to giving up and trying to install prebuild nvidia modules from
livna I realized I had the wrong kernel arch installed.

Tell me if this is the same bug or if I must fill a new bug entry.

okay, I think we solved this when we moved a bunch of code out of yum-cli for
the code in yum/__init__.py

Could either of you test the above cases with yum 3.2.12 from rawhide?

I believe we've fixed this. If not, please reopen.

thanks

I tried to test the new yum, but wanted to reproduce the original problem first,
to make sure I was actually testing it.

However, even yum-3.2.8.2.fc8.noarch is working correctly for me right now.

Is it still worth me testing this new yum, to confirm it still works?

Yes, either way it is worth a shot.