On Sun, August 24, 2014 10:22 am, Andrew Stringer wrote: > With make menuconfig I could select the extra modules to compile. This > seems to have worked ok, but the resulting kernel is > kernel-2.6.32-1.i386.rpm, the src package is kernel-2.6.32-1.src.rpm but > the running kernel is 2.6.32-431.20.5 > > Trying to install it gives:- > [root at neptune ~]# rpm -ivh > /home/andrew/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kernel-2.6.32-1.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] > package kernel-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 (which is newer than > kernel-2.6.32-1.i386) is already installed > package kernel-2.6.32-431.20.5.el6.i686 (which is newer than > kernel-2.6.32-1.i386) is already installed > [root at neptune ~]# You can just insist that you are installing older package like this: rpm -ivh --oldpackage ... > > I'm not sure why the new kernel isn't a later number. > You can change package version number (append to be precise) in rpm spec file (before you rebuild rpm). I hope, this helps. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++