On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:08 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:

Johnny Hughes wrote:

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On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:56 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:

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How can I install kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL via yum? Can I grab the rpm from somewhere and do a local install?

It is in the updates repo for your arch:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-3 4.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

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or

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9 -34.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

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Once downladed install like this:

rpm -ivh kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

or

rpm -ivh kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

(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.