[Yum] multiple versions of packages not shown by yum

[Brian Lalor]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 09:18, Brian Lalor wrote:
> 
>>I've got multiple versions of the kernel package on my laptop.  "rpm -q 
>>kernel" shows both of them, but "yum list kernel" only shows the installed one 
>>with the most recent release number and an additional one available for 
>>upgrade.  Please tell me this is a bug... :-)  I'm using 
>>yum-1.98-3.20030707.rh9.fr from the FreshRPMs channel[1].
>>
>>[1] http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/freshrpms/
> 
> 
> it's not a bug per-se.
> Its more of a design suprise.
> 
> What is it prohibiting you from doing?

using yum to remove my old kernel.  "yum remove kernel-2.4.20-8" doesn't work, 
but neither does "yum remove kernel-2.4.20-13.9" (which yum shows as being 
installed) for that matter...

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