[Yum] Re: yum install -force package

[Olaf Olson]

Of course! Since it's not really installed, there's no harm in removing.

Thanks for answering a stupid question. The kernel update is now proceeding.

Olaf

seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:20, Olaf Olson wrote:
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>>Garrick,
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>>Thanks for your assistance.
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>>I should have told you all of the story, before asking for advice, 
>>however, instead of trying to avoid the embarrassment of what I have done.
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>>I had a power surge, which knocked out portions of my installation 
>>(Yellow Dog Linux, 3.0.1, on a PPC, G3 B&W). I managed to recover a 
>>great deal of my installation, but, improper backups resulted in only a 
>>partial restore. I had used yum to upgrade the kernel from 2.4.22-2a to 
>>2.4.22-2g. Unfortunately, my restore brought back the 2a image. I can't 
>>use yum to reinstall the 2g kernel, because yum still believes I have 
>>it. In reality, of course, the kernel isn't there and still needs all of 
>>the simple attention and automatic configuration that yum so easily 
>>provides.
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>>So... what I am really looking for, I guess, is a way to whack yum on 
>>the head so that it gets partial amnesia and forgets that I ever managed 
>>to update the kernel. Is there a way to do that??
>>
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>So you're not running the 2.4.22-2g kernel but the rpmdb thinks it has
>it.
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>okay
>rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-2g
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>and then yum update kernel
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>-sv
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