you are exactly right.. Thanks to all of you for your help..
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:28 PM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: RE: RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to
current--repair RPM database
You probably have the kernel exempted in the method you are using to do
the update.
up2date normally exempts the kernel ... click on the
Menu -> System Settings -> CentOS Network Settings
Click on the "Package Exceptions" tab ... and remove kernel* from the
"Package Names to Skip" section and save.
Then you can run up2date and upgrade your kernel.
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:45 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
> the --initdb and then --rebuilddb solved all of the problem except the
> kernel issue...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Bryan J. Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: RE: trying to upgrade from Centos 4.0 to current
> --repair RPM database
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:15 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> > man page
> > ========
> > 'Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
> > database indices from the installed package headers.'
> > As in --initdb would efectively nuke all your bookkeeping about
> > installed RPMS.
>
> Last time I checked --initdb just creates an empty database. --
> rebuilddb creates an empty database and re-populates it. You can run
> the latter after former. In fact, I typically had to do that back with
> early RPM 4.0.
>
> Furthermore, RPM 4 can get RPM database info from outside the database.
> Remember, the db is just an index. The RPM information is stored
> outside of it too.
>
>
> --
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