Hello,<br>
my situation is this:<br>
rpm -qa|grep kernel<br>
gives:<br>
kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1771_FC5<br>
kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5<br>
kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5<br>
kernel-2.6.14-1.1771_FC5<br>
<br>
in the local directory ls -1 kernel*<br>
kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i586.rpm<br>
kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i586.rpm<br>
kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.noarch.rpm<br>
kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-xen-guest-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-xen-guest-devel-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-xen-hypervisor-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
kernel-xen-hypervisor-devel-2.6.12-1.13_FC5.i686.rpm<br>
<br>
command<br>
yum localupdate *rpm<br>
<br>
at the end I have:<br>
<br>
=============================================================================<br>
Installing:<br>
kernel
i686 2.6.14-1.1773_FC5
kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm 33 M<br>
kernel-smp
i686 2.6.14-1.1773_FC5
kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5.i686.rpm 38 M<br>
Removing:<br>
kernel
i686 2.6.14-1.1771_FC5
installed 33 M<br>
kernel-smp
i686 2.6.14-1.1771_FC5
installed 38 M<br>
<br>
Transaction Summary<br>
=============================================================================<br>
Install 2 Package(s)<br>
Update 0 Package(s)<br>
Remove 2 Package(s)<br>
Total download size: 70 M<br>
Is this ok [y/N]: y<br>
Downloading Packages:<br>
Running Transaction Test<br>
Finished Transaction Test<br>
<br>
<br>
Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5
is already installed package kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1773_FC5 is
already installed<br>
<br>
It seems yum is not able to manage where multiple versions of kernel are installed<br>
I would expect a message like "nothing to be updated".<br>
Gianluca<br>
<br>
<br>