to, 2008-07-17 kello 05:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes kirjoitti:
Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
to, 2008-07-17 kello 09:16 +0100, ne.. kirjoitti:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:05, Antti J. Huhtala ahuhtal4@welho.com wrote:
What is the safe way to remove the previous installed kernel version without taking out the uninstalled new version? Is the latter safe in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS if I use 'rpm -e' to remove the former version?
There is no need to remove the old kernel. Use the --replacefiles option to rpm when installing the new kernel. Then verify that your grub.conf/lilo.conf has the correct entry.
Well, it wasn't as simple as that. rpm says:"kernel ... is already installed" and will not go on. The identifiers (file names) are identical, remember?
Any other ideas?
Antti
rpm -ivh --force <rpm_name>
OK, thanks. I decided to try 'rpm -e kernel<version>', 'rpm -e kernel-devel<version>, and then went to ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686 and ran 'rpm -ivh kernel<version>.rpm. All went well.
Antti