[CentOS] yum updates

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 14:42 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:08 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > (or you can remove the package with rpm -e kernel-smp-devel ... then
> > > > 
> > > > yum install kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686
> > > > 
> > > > or
> > > > 
> > > > yum install kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.x86_64 )
> > > 
> > > I found the updates repo shortly after sending the first email.  I
> > > followed your second suggestion and was able to have "yum install" see
> > > it after removing the old package.
> > > 
> > > Why is the "rpm -e" required?  It seems like I should be able to do
> > > "yum update" and specify the package version as long as it is newer
> > > than what is currently installed.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yum has no option to install an older file on top of a newer file
> > 
> > An update probably installed the 34.0.2.EL-xxxx-devel file ... so 34.0.1
> > will never install instead of the newer one.
> 
> The installed package was older.  I have already removed the package
> on the system I was working with, but here is an example from another
> one that is identical except for being x86_64 instead of i686.
> 
>     # yum info installed kernel-smp-devel
>     Installed Packages
>     Name   : kernel-smp-devel
>     Arch   : x86_64
>     Version: 2.6.9
>     Release: 34.EL
>     Size   : 11 M
>     Repo   : installed
> 
>     # yum update kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
>     Setting up Update Process
>     Setting up repositories
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     Could not find update match for kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
>     No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 
> I have verified that the package does exist in the repo:
> 
>     kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm 
> 
> It looks like a "yum update" will only update to the newest package
> version.

yum install should install a newer ... but not necessarily the newest
package (I think) :)
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