kernel-doc not updated?

[tux2furious]

I'm using Fedora Core 2

after a fresh install, i did a "yum update"

all the packages were updated except kernel-doc

up2date icons says:
2 updates available (0 ignored)

Red Hat Alert Notification Tool says:
Available Updates - kernel-doc
Version Installed - kernel-doc-2.6.5-1.358
Available - kernel-doc-2.6.6-1.427, kernel-doc-2.6.6-1.435

tried yum update kernel-doc, results:
kernel-doc is installed and is the latest version

rpm -q kernel-doc, results:
kernel-doc-2.6.5-1.358

Any idea why yum can't update kenel-doc?

[marks_linux]

Nope - but same problem here!

using: apt-get install kernel-doc#2.6.6-1.435

gets rid of it (assuming you have apt installed)

Mark

[bradthemad]

This is a side effect of the whole renaming-the-kernel-source package mess. kernel-doc used to be an i386 package, but has since changed to noarch, like the source package did. This makes sense; documentation and sourcecode are not architecture-dependent items, and it's more efficient to distribute one noarch package than virtually identical packages for every different architecture.

Yum has a configuration setting "exactarch=1" that prevents a downgrade in architectures. If you have an i686 package of something installed, yum will not update to an i386 package, even if it is a newer version. If you're checking for updates on a mirror that isn't quite up to date and hasn't gotten your i686 package yet, but does have the corresponding i386 version, you don't want to update to the i386 package. You want it to do nothing until the update for i686 is available. Red Hat changed the name of the source package to sourcecode as a hack to sort of fool yum into letting you update the package, but they didn't do the same for the doc package. Whether renaming was the best idea is still the topic of debate.

That is why yum won't update you from kernel-doc-2.6.5-1.358.i386.rpm to kernel-doc-2.6.6-1.435.noarch.rpm. There are workarounds:

As mentioned already, you can use a different update tool that isn't as careful.
You can temporarily set "exactarch=0" in your yum.conf, and yum will update it as expected.
You can uninstall the existing package, and then install the new one.
Or you can just download the RPM yourself and "rpm -U" the update by hand.

[tux2furious]

thanks for the detail explanation

guess, i'll download the package manually