[Yum] installing older kernels (or other packages) through yum

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue Jul 18 17:16:02 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 10:10 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "BL" == Brian Long <brilong at cisco.com> writes:
> 
> BL> Why not use Epoch in your kernel SPEC file?

I would not even need to have an Epoch (evil! :-). I could make my
kernel version-release higher than the Fedora kernels (they all seem to
start with a release of "1.xxx" where xxx is the number being
incremented. But that does not really solve the problem. At some point
you might _want_ to install a Fedora kernel to test something and then
you would not be able to because it was "older". 

> Or just have the custom kernel package do
> Provides: kernel-ccrma
> and have the things that need the special kernel require that?

Yum will still refuse to install it as the kernel will still be older
than the latest Fedora kernel. It is not a matter of what is provided or
required, it is rpm itself that needs to be told that installing an
older package of a multiply-installed package is just fine. 

-- Fernando





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