Bug 101560
| Summary: | RPM does not allow multiple kernels | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Zenon Panoussis <redhatbugs> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | beta1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-19 13:36:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Use the --oldpackage flag. --force works, --oldpackage probably works too, but that's not the point; the point is that the hitherto behaviour of kernel packages was correct and that is now broken. Actually I think you have always needed --oldpackage or equivalent to install an older kernel. I have just checked RH7.1 which is as far back as I can easily go, and that requires extra options to install a kernel older than the current one. Use --oldpackage. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Virgin severn: # rpm -hiv kernel-2.4.20-9.athlon.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl (which is newer than kernel-2.4.20-9) is already installed The kernel packages are supposed to live parallel to each-other, not upgrade each-other and it has always been possible to install an older kernel without --force. Not any more, apparently. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Repeat command. Additional info: