to, 2008-07-17 kello 05:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes kirjoitti: > Antti J. Huhtala 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? > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > Antti > > rpm -ivh --force <rpm_name> > OK, thanks. I decided to try 'rpm -e kernel<version>', 'rpm -e kernel-devel<version>, and then went to ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686 and ran 'rpm -ivh kernel<version>.rpm. All went well. Antti