On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 06:48 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano schrieb:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 13:37 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 11:09 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>> Hiya... some of my (Planet CCRMA) users are still having problems when
> >>> trying to install older kernels with yum. Does anyone know how to tell
> >>> yum to pretty please install a kernel even if it is version-older than
> >>> the newest already installed?
> >>> I have a set of packages (planetccrma-core-*) that "Requires:" the
> >>> proper kernel, alsa, rtirq script, etc, etc. Yum refuses to install an
> >>> older kernel.
> >> Not sure how you're doing right now, but seems like you could just name
> >> your kernel package "kernel-planetccrma" so it doesn't conflict with the
> >> stock kernels version-wise, and Provide: kernel-%{version} or whatever.
> >> Check into whatever the "kernel-smp" packages are doing.
> > My kernels (patched with Ingo's realtime preemption patch) are just
> > named "kernel" and "kernel-smp" like the rest of the kernel packages - I
> > don't think the name can even be changed, there are many things that
> > happen because of the name (I learned that a long time ago). [...]
>
> That's true, but the name IMHO should be changed nevertheless to avoid
> confusion and problems like the one that was described in the first
> message in this thread.
I don't quite agree. It is just another kernel.
Anyway, I can't change the name (other things _will_ break, or at least
that was what happened a long time ago when I foolishly tried for other
reasons), so that is a no no for now.
There is nothing in rpm that disallows installing several kernels at the
same time. I can just go ahead and rpm -ivh it and everybody's happy.
Yum is becoming too smart and does not have (AFAIK) any way to make it
dumber when you need it[*] - so at this point it is not allowing me to
do something perfectly legal. Bad yum :-)
-- Fernando
[*] obviously nobody has needed to do this so far. But that does not
make the need any less real or valid.
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