Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
>> I did a yum upgrade AFTER first manually installing the new kernel.
>
>
> why did you manually need to install the kernel ?
Because a "yum update kernel" offered to install the -SMP kernel. This
is, no doubt, an artifact of anaconda & associates deciding at the time
CentOS4 was first installed that an SMP kernel was appropriate for an
Athlon XP in an ASUS A7NX8 ver.2 deluxe m/b, compounded by my packrat
reluctance to throw it away at the outset.
> you can / should use yum to do that for you. perhaps go with a 'yum
> update yum' before you kick everything off with a 'yum update'.
THAT is what I would definitely do different.
> if you really want the kernel in and running before you do the yum
> update, then do a yum update yum; yum update kernel; reboot; yum update
No. I didn't want -- or have -- the new kernel running before the
update. I simply wanted it to be available.
I'm reasonably sure everything is gonna be O.K. Yum is one of the
packages that gets reported twice:
[root@mavis yum.repos.d]# rpm -q yum
yum-2.2.1-1.centos4
yum-2.4.0-1.centos4
The correct version gets executed:
[root@mavis yum.repos.d]# yum --version
2.4.0
...but the list of files installed is screwy. So, it looks like my work
is cut out for me:
[root@mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort |
uniq | wc -l
1433
[root@mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort |
wc -l
1655
I'm not overwhelmed by brilliant ideas for scripting the obvious. :-(
