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 -- ---------------------------------------------------- | Stephan Wiesand | | | | | | DESY - DV - | phone +49 33762 7 7370 | | Platanenallee 6 | fax +49 33762 7 7216 | | 15738 Zeuthen | | | Germany | | ----------------------------------------------------