[CentOS] yum updates
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Tue Aug 8 17:26:55 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:08 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:56 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > or
> >
> >
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9
> -34.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >
> > 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.
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