R-R-R Revisited

[Olaf Olson]

I received an answer to my question, via the yum mail list. The answer 
is simple - mostly. Remove the kernel upgrade! Since it isn't really 
being used, remove it and yum update kernel and voila! Pardon my French.

So... how to do that:

rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-2g

and then yum update kernel


That's according to Seth Vidal, Mr. YUM, himself. I also got advice to:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps packagename

but I had a little trouble understanding that packagename wasn't kernel, 
but was kernel-2.4.22-2g

The second form would just remove the single package and not touch the 
dependencies. justdb means only the database, not the filesystem, which 
should mean that it would force yum to believe that an update or install 
hadn't taken place and would, therefore, redo it. The latter is helpful 
when something's not working right, but you don't want it to stop 
working completely before you reinstall it.

Anyway, I'm now fully restored and happily running.

Olaf

Olaf Olson wrote:

> OK. Mostly I am working after the reinstall, except...
>
> The current kernel is 2.4.22a - that's the one from the CD. I had once 
> upgraded to 2.4.22g, using yum update. Sadly, because I didn't wipe 
> all partitions and reinstall, yum still thinks I have 2.4.22g, so yum 
> update sees nothing to update. Yet, my 2.4.22g kernel isn't there.
>
> How do I tell yum that?
>
> Olaf
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