Hello, my situation is this: rpm -qa|grep kernel gives: kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1771_FC5 kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 kernel-2.6.14-1.1771_FC5
in the local directory ls -1 kernel* kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i586.rpm kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i586.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.noarch.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-guest-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-guest-devel-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-hypervisor-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-hypervisor-devel-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm
command yum localupdate *rpm
at the end I have:
============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm 33 M kernel-smp i686 2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm 38 M Removing: kernel i686 2.6.14-1.1771_FC5 installed 33 M kernel-smp i686 2.6.14-1.1771_FC5 installed 38 M
Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 2 Package(s) Total download size: 70 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 is already installed package kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 is already installed
It seems yum is not able to manage where multiple versions of kernel are installed I would expect a message like "nothing to be updated". Gianluca
On 12/20/05, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com wrote:
It seems yum is not able to manage where multiple versions of kernel are installed I would expect a message like "nothing to be updated".
Sounds like a localupdate/localinstall bug when working with packages that are classified as "installonly" like kernel and kernel-smp. You should probably file this in bugzilla if its not already filed.
Does localupdate work as you expect and give you a "nothing to update" message when you try to update something which is already installed other than a kernel via localupdate?
-jef