Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
to, 2008-07-17 kello 09:16 +0100, ne.. kirjoitti:On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:05, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:What is the safe way to remove the previous installed kernel version without taking out the uninstalled new version? Is the latter safe in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS if I use 'rpm -e' to remove the former version?There is no need to remove the old kernel. Use the --replacefiles option to rpm when installing the new kernel. Then verify that your grub.conf/lilo.conf has the correct entry.Well, it wasn't as simple as that. rpm says:"kernel ... is already installed" and will not go on. The identifiers (file names) are identical, remember? Any other ideas? Antti
rpm -ivh --force <rpm_name>
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