Bug 101965

Summary: up2date won't install kernel-unsupported rpm update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Bernd Bartmann <bernd.bartmann>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Description Bernd Bartmann 2003-08-08 13:27:08 UTC
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Description of problem:
up2date thinks that kernel-unsupported is already installed on my system:

[root@sohanetpc5 root]# up2date --show-available
kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-bigmem-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-bigmem-unsupported-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-smp-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent

[root@sohanetpc5 root]# up2date --nosig --install kernel-unsupported
 
Fetching package list for channel: rhel3-beta1-as-i386...
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Fetching package list for channel: rhel3-beta1-as-i386-updates...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel3-beta1-as-i386...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel3-beta1-as-i386-updates...
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Fetching rpm headers...
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The following packages you requested are already updated:
kernel-unsupported
[root@sohanetpc5 root]# rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13
kernel-source-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.377.ent
kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.382.ent
kernel-utils-2.4-8.33


up2date --force ... solves the problem

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try up2date on kernel-unsupported rpm
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-08-08 16:59:24 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101963 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:02 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.