On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:

...

>> And yum refuses to install kernel-unsupported.ia32e on my shiny
>> new EM64T test system because it insists that x86_64 is the one and only
>> architecture I should install for.
>
> (isn't it because your yum.conf contains exactarch=1 ?)

Finally got around to checking this: No, yum does this whether or not
exactarch=1 is in effect. This change to /usr/share/yum/archwork.py
seems to fix it:

-    archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','x86_64','athlon','i386','i686']
+    archdict['x86_64']=['noarch','x86_64','ia32e','athlon','i386','i686']

A "yum install kernel-unsupported" will now do the right thing on
an EM64T system, while on an Opteron it still prefers the x86_64 package.
I have no clue why it works this well though...

Cheers,
        Stephan

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