Axel, There's a fundamental misunderstanding here about using rpm -i. You claim that it does not function for kmods. Most of us consider your examples for this an upgrade path rather than an install path. We consider rpm -i only useful for the install path where there are no other kernel modules of that name installed on the system. So, when no previous versions of a specific kernel module are installed and we use rpm -i to install one, there are no file conflicts. The package is installed correctly. Other cases are considered upgrade paths and we agree that rpm -U does not give the desired behavior. rpm -i should not be used for an upgrade path as it does not work for any package at all. Jack -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging