[CentOS] yum updates
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sat Aug 12 09:30:37 UTC 2006
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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