On 24 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote: > 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? yum update > What preceeds this error? Calaulating disk space, this could take awhile > can you run it w/-d 4 Yep!! It is ~46K so I put it at http://www.stnhbr.com/yum.output rather than posting it to the list. > > 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. with the kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.1.nano.tjc kernel installed on the machine and kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x in the repository, should yum try to install the kernel in the repository? Yum downloaded the kernel from the repository and attempted to install it. It This is a RHL 7.2 system we had sitting in the corner until recently. I decided to install yum on it to bring it up to date. [root@octopus root]# rpm -qa | grep rpm rpm-build-4.0.4-7x rpm-perl-4.0.4-7x rpm2html-1.7-3.7x rpm-python-4.0.4-7x rpmfind-1.7-4.7x rpm-4.0.4-7x [root@octopus root]# rpm -qa | grep yum yum-0.9.3-1 [root@octopus root]# I am using your repositories for 7.2 to do the updates. If you need further info let me know, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....