Re: Replacing custom kernel with another - with same identifier

["Antti J. Huhtala" <ahuhtal4@xxxxxxxxx>]

to, 2008-07-17 kello 05:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes kirjoitti:
> 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>
> 
OK, thanks. I decided to try 'rpm -e kernel<version>', 'rpm -e
kernel-devel<version>, and then went to ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i686 and ran
'rpm -ivh kernel<version>.rpm. All went well.

Antti


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