[Yum] Re: Yum error question

[Tom Diehl]

On 24 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 11:41, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to update a 7.2 machine with yum. The machine has a custom
> > kernel rpm on it. when I try to do the update I get the following error:
> > 
> > Errors installing:
> > ('package kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.1.nano.tjc (which is newer than kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x) is already installed', (8, None, 0))
> > [root at octopus root]#
> > 
> 
> What command were you running?

yum update

> What preceeds this error?

Calaulating disk space, this could take awhile

> can you run it w/-d 4

Yep!! It is ~46K so I put it at http://www.stnhbr.com/yum.output
rather than posting it to the list.

> > 1) should yum barf on this or should it just ignore the kernel in the 
> > repository?
> 
> I'm not clear  the background here - can you fill in a bit more.

with the kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.1.nano.tjc kernel installed on the machine
and kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x in the repository, should yum try to install
the kernel in the repository? Yum downloaded the kernel from the repository
and attempted to install it. It

This is a RHL 7.2 system we had sitting in the corner until recently. I 
decided to install yum on it to bring it up to date. 
[root at octopus root]# rpm -qa | grep rpm
rpm-build-4.0.4-7x
rpm-perl-4.0.4-7x
rpm2html-1.7-3.7x
rpm-python-4.0.4-7x
rpmfind-1.7-4.7x
rpm-4.0.4-7x

[root at octopus root]# rpm -qa | grep yum
yum-0.9.3-1
[root at octopus root]#

I am using your repositories for 7.2 to do the updates.

If you need further info let me know,

-- 
.............Tom	"Nothing would please me more than being able to 
tdiehl at rogueind.com	hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market 
			with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976

   			We are still waiting ....