Reinstallation of an old kernel package

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue May 9 14:09:35 UTC 2006


Ambrogio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> updating my FC5 I noted that an old version of the kernel was removed.
> But removing wrong.
> So rpm -qa | grep kern don't display the old version (2080) but in
> the /boot I see all files related to 2080
> 
> Also in the /lib/modules I see all modules related to the 2080 version.
> 
> Now there are the 2096 and 2111.
> 
> I tried install the old kernel but the answer is
> package kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5) is already installed
> package kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5) is already installed
> 
> So the question is:
> 
> trying the rpm -i --force of the older kernel is a good idea?

No. As I said before, don't use --force or --nodeps unless you really 
know what you're doing. It's not needed in this case.

# rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5

Paul.




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