[CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current--repairRPM database

David Campbell decampbell1 at comcast.net
Sat Aug 20 21:48:37 UTC 2005


ummm I may have spoken too soon.. lol.   It still does not show the
available update in up2date.  I have rebooted the server to verify that
everything has been refreshed.  Still there are no options to upgrade the
kernel.. Although initially, you were right, it was in the exceptions list.



-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
Behalf Of David Campbell
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 5:37 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to
current--repairRPM database


you are exactly right.. Thanks to all of you for your help..

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:28 PM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to
current--repair RPM database


You probably have the kernel exempted in the method you are using to do
the update.

up2date normally exempts the kernel ... click on the

Menu -> System Settings -> CentOS Network Settings

Click on the "Package Exceptions" tab ... and remove kernel* from the
"Package Names to Skip" section and save.

Then you can run up2date and upgrade your kernel.

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:45 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
> the --initdb and then --rebuilddb solved all of the problem except the
> kernel issue...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
> Behalf Of Bryan J. Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current
> --repair RPM database
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:15 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> > man page
> > ========
> > 'Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
> > database indices from the installed package headers.'
> > As in --initdb would efectively nuke all your bookkeeping about
> > installed RPMS.
>
> Last time I checked --initdb just creates an empty database.  --
> rebuilddb creates an empty database and re-populates it.  You can run
> the latter after former.  In fact, I typically had to do that back with
> early RPM 4.0.
>
> Furthermore, RPM 4 can get RPM database info from outside the database.
> Remember, the db is just an index.  The RPM information is stored
> outside of it too.
>
>
> --
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