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.
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Bowie