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. > > > -- > Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if > you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos