to, 2008-07-17 kello 17:58 +0100, ne.. kirjoitti: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:19, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > > to, 2008-07-17 kello 09:16 +0100, ne.. kirjoitti: > >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:05, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > What is the safe way to remove the previous installed kernel version > >> > without taking out the uninstalled new version? Is the latter safe in > >> > ~/rpmbuild/RPMS if I use 'rpm -e' to remove the former version? > >> There is no need to remove the old kernel. Use the --replacefiles option to > >> rpm when installing the new kernel. Then verify that your grub.conf/lilo.conf > >> has the correct entry. > >> > > Well, it wasn't as simple as that. rpm says:"kernel ... is already > > installed" and will not go on. The identifiers (file names) are > > identical, remember? > Bummer, wrong option. From rpm --help > --replacepkgs reinstall if the package is already present > > And what Mr Hughes wrote will also work. > I'm sure you are both right. However, I took the long path and first removed kernel and kernel-devel, then installed with 'rpm -ivh'. All went OK. Thanks anyway. Antti