Fun with lirc and streamzap...

[Bruce Labitt]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>> kernel.i686	2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
>> kernel.i686	2.6.20-1.2952.fc6
>> kernel-devel.i586	2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
>> kernel-devel.i586	2.6.20-1.2952.fc6
>>     
>
>   Okay, from the above, we can tell that you've got two versions
> installed for each of the "kernel" and "kernel-devel" packages.  It's
> perfectly okay for kernel packages to have multiple versions
> installed.  It lets you rollback to an old version if something goes
> wrong with an upgrade.
>
>   What's not okay is that the main kernel packages, "kernel", are for
> the i686 architecture, while the "kernel-devel" package are for the
> i586 architecture.
>
>   To fix this, try this:
>
> 	rpm --erase --allmatches kernel-devel
>
> which should remove the bogus packages.  Then do:
>
> 	yum install kernel-devel
>
> which should install the latest package, and for the proper architecture.
>
>   You might run into dependency problems with the --erase command (if
> something else already installed depends on the kernel-devel package).
>  The easiest way around that is to tell RPM to ignore dependencies
> with the "--nodeps" switch, i.e.:
>
> 	rpm --erase --allmatches --nodeps kernel-devel
>
> Normally, once does not want to tell RPM to ignore dependencies (they
> exist for very good reason, and ignoring them is usually a recipe for
> trouble), but since the goal here is to immediately re-install the
> proper package, you'll be okay when you're done.
>
> -- Ben
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>   
Thanks Ben,

That part seemed to work.  I tried to build lirc after running the setup 
for configuration.  Everything ran, there were warnings, but no errors.  
Of course nothing (streamzap) works yet...

Bruce