"Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I want to do a yum update from a given internal repo that includes a > kernel that's older than the one I have installed. Yum refuses to do > this update though: > > Transaction Check Error: > package kernel-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6_foo.g636ddbf.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6_foo.x86_64) is already installed > > and then errors out. This message is from rpm. Which means that yum/rpm is treating the "kernel" package as a normal package and not as an "installonly" package. Something seems badly configured. > How can I force yum to install the older kernel even though a supposedly > newer one is already installed? I guess I'm looking for the yum > equivalent of rpm's "--oldpackage" option. It's automatic, for most packages it's added to the transaction when you use "yum downgrade" ... but kernel/installonly packages are different. > I know I could use "rpm -e" to remove > kernel-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6_foo.g636ddbf.x86_64 before I do the yum > update, but it's just too dangerous to remove your only known working > kernel before installing a newer, as-of-yet, not known working kernel. Yeh, don't do that. You need to figure out why yum/rpm doesn't think the kernel package is installonly. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
