yum install question

[Neal Becker]

I want to install a test kernel.  This is f8t3 yum with all yum* rpms
installed.

1. How do I convince yum to install this kernel?  (yum install --help
doesn't tell me)
2. Convince me this is not a bug.

sudo yum install kernel-* --nogpg -t
Loading "tsflags" plugin
Loading "basearchonly" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "merge-conf" plugin
Loading "changelog" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Loading "presto" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for development
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Examining kernel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm: kernel -
2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64
Marking kernel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm as an update to kernel -
2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8.x86_64
kernel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm: does not update installed package.
Examining kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm: kernel-devel -
2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64
Marking kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm as an update to
kernel-devel - 2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm: does not update installed
package.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV set to be updated
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel                  x86_64     2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV 
kernel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm   62 M
 kernel-devel            x86_64     2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV 
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV.x86_64.rpm   30 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 91 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Downloading DeltaRPMs:
Rebuilding rpms from deltarpms
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  package kernel-2.6.23.1-26.fc8 (which is newer than
kernel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV) is already installed
  package kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-26.fc8 (which is newer than
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-16.ALSA_NV) is already installed

Error Summary
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