On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 11:41, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to update a 7.2 machine with yum. The machine has a custom
> kernel rpm on it. when I try to do the update I get the following error:
>
> Errors installing:
> ('package kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.1.nano.tjc (which is newer than kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x) is already installed', (8, None, 0))
> [root@octopus root]#
>
What command were you running?
What preceeds this error?
can you run it w/-d 4
> 1) should yum barf on this or should it just ignore the kernel in the
> repository?
I'm not clear the background here - can you fill in a bit more.
> 2) If yum is doing the correct thing what incantation do I need in the
> config file to get it to ignore the kernel rpms?
exclude=kernel* will exclude the kernel but I'd like to hear more about
what caused this problem.
-sv
