[Yum] forcing older kernel package install (rpm --oldpackage for yum?) redux

[James Antill]

"Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> writes:

> A while ago in:
>
> http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2012-June/023859.html
>
> I asked about Yum's refusal to install an older kernel package:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   package kernel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6_foo.x86_64) is already installed
>
> The reason kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6_foo.x86_64 is
> even being considered for installation is because a given kernel
> modules package requires it with:
>
> kernel = 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6_foo
>
> But clearly this confuses Yum since it doesn't want to install
> the older kernel package.  I was told back then in:
>
>    This message is from rpm. Which means that yum/rpm is treating the
>   "kernel" package as a normal package and not as an "installonly"
>   package. Something seems badly configured.

 The follow on to this is that "kernel" should be in the
installonlypkgs configuration list.

> And indeed, if I try to just use RPM to install this kernel, I
> get the same error:
>
> # rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6_foo.x86_64.rpm 
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> 	package kernel-2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6_foo.x86_64) is already installed
>
> But!  RPM has an option, "--oldpackage" that allows to me tell it
> that installing an older package is OK.  Yum doesn't seem to have
> any equivalent that I can see.
>
> Or does it?

 It has downgrade ... but you shouldn't need it in this case.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org