[Yum] yum not installing most recent kernel
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jul 22 18:31:42 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:10 -0700, Brian Ferguson wrote:
> So I built and installed yum 1.0.3 on my rh7.3 system, and I'm still
> having the problem as before:
>
> [chicken] yum-arch -z .
>
> ...
>
>
> Digesting rpms 37 % complete: kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.rpmAlready found
> tuple: kernel i686
>
> ignoring older pkg: kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
>
<sigh> rpm 4.0.4 had a non deterministic version sort for numbers versus
letters
so you're looking for the newer package
and you're comparing 0 vs a
in rpm > 4.1.1 it's deterministic - numbers are always newer than
letters.
in rpm < 4.1.1 it's not fun.
a > 0
0 > a
depending on which one you sort first - ie:
if I ask
vercmp(a, 0)
it tells me a is newer
vercmp(0, a)
it tells me 0 is newer
see the problem?
-sv
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