[Yum] Faking Out the Kernel Version

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:05 -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
> I manually built and installed a 2.4.30 kernel.  An 'rpm -q kernel' shows
> kernel-2.4.7-10 since that is the last version I installed via an rpm.  How
> can I easily get yum to understand that I have a 2.4.30 so that I don't get
> screwed on kernel version dependencies?  I'm not sure how to create an rpm
> package from my 2.4.30 build tree so I don't think that's an option - unless
> someone can point me to an easy howto.  Barring that, is there anything easy
> I can do to get around this?

Not really. Yum bases its update list on what is in the rpm db. If
you've installed something not in an rpm then yum (and rpm) have no way
of knowing where it is.

-sv