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. -- Laurence J. Peter - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."