> Mm, you *could* do that by doing a "manual" update of erasing the specific > older version of the package and installing the new, instead of using > rpm's normal update procedure. Actually this has been brought up before on > the subject of kernel-module packages, on freshrpms-list IIRC. I wasn't > excited about doing such a "manual" update from apt for this special case > then and I'm not now either :) <sigh> God this is going to be ugly. Like really, really, really ugly. -sv