From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: rpm, at least when used casually, complains too much about installation issues. It may be a package prob (kernel vs kernel-BOOT), or a packaging problem (ie no way to mark those 2 as mutually exclusive), or an rpm problem (has enough info to silence these complaints, but doesnt do so) [root@homer rpms]# rpm -U *.rpm ... package kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 is already installed ... file /boot/System.map-2.4.18-27.8.0 from install of kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 file /boot/config-2.4.18-27.8.0 from install of kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 [root@homer rpms]# ls kernel-* kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0.i386.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.18-27.8.0.i386.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-27.8.0.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-27.8.0.i386.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.1-1.06 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. download all updates/8.0/en/i386/* 2. cd to local dir 3. rpm -U *.rpm Expected Results: i expected the 'already installed' message Additional info:
There is no way in general for rpm to understand what kernel is intended when you do rpm -Uvh yadda/yadda/kernel*.rpm Install the kernel that you want manually.