On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:02 -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote: > I'm sorry if you have gotten this 381 times already, but on the long > shot that no one reported this one... > > As part of a debug exercise, I'm in the process of building a brand > spanking new Red Hat 9 box from the CDs that I've been lovingly carrying > around all these years. My goal: load the system, then use Yum to > bring everything up to date. Well... > > > > > Looking in Installed Packages: > > Name Arch Version Repo > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > kernel i686 2.4.20-8 db > > The problem is that the version for the most up-to-date kernel is > 2.4.20-37. Oops. I guest that 8 is greater than 37 in this context. > > I already know your next question! > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > yum noarch 2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90 db > > One good thing came out of this -- I've now been exposed to Python. > Something new to learn every day. > > I ran into something like this when I wrote an RPM package manager. > What did I end up doing? I took any digit string and made it ten digits > long before making comparisons between names. So, for example, I would > expand the current Yum verion: > > 2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90 > okay so first off: 1. why do you think kernel -37 is available? 2. what repositories are you using? 3. why are you using such an old version of yum? -sv
