kernel a/o bootloader confusing yum

[Andrew]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:21, beartooth wrote:

I am confident all you need to do is to add an exclude= line in yum.conf:

exclude=kernel-g5 kernel-g5-smp


> I tried to run yum update this morning. It got almost finished, then
> complained that the kernel it had found was for ppc64 -- this is on a G3
> iBook, and I don't know what those had in August 2002.
>
> I tried yum update kernel, and it seemed to take, but reported it found no
> bootloader, and couldn't configure the kernel. rpm -q yaboot gets me an
> rpm designation.
>
> I tried yum clean, then yum update again. It still hangs on a complaint
> that the kernel is for ppc64 architecture. yum update --exclude kernel
> fails. yum update exception=kernel fails.
>
> I see nothing else in man yum that even suggests what to do.