Rogue package

[Richard England]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>    I have an FC10 system that has kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i586 
> installed, yet yum nor rpm seem to think it is.  It's in grub.conf, 
> there are files in /usr/src/kernels/ pertaining to it ... but I can't 
> remove it.
>
>    The system is running kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 so I 
> don't need the other one.  How do I go about instructing yum that it's 
> installed and to remove it, if it tells me the package isn't installed?
>
How was the kernel installed?  The rpm database probably does not know 
about the kernel if rpm (or yum) was not used to install it.

~~~R