2 kernels to be updated? what up wit dat? :)

[VJ]

The appearance of two kernels may be explained as following(just a guess
work cos I do not know how up2date prepares the list after downloading
headers)

1)    The mirror you are using for updates does not remove old rpms(in this
case the kernel rpms), so the RPMs and their corresponding headers stay
there always even if newer versions appear later on.
2)    The up2date program downloads the headers to show the information
about outdates packages but does not look into the fact that there may be
rpms of multiple versions of the same package(in this case the kernel). So,
to up2date, both the packages seem different, ideally though, it should
prepeare the list of only the latest version RPMs even if multiple version
RPMs exist.

Just to prove my theory, can you tell me if it downloaded both the kernels
actually or just the latest one?

VJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Mitchell" <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: 2 kernels to be updated? what up wit dat? :)


> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:17:42PM -0500, Kevin Hanser wrote:
> ....
> > The following is a list of outdated packages on your system:
> >
> > Name                                     Version         Release
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -----
> > bash                                     2.05b           34
> > kernel                                   2.4.22          1.2135.nptl
> > kernel                                   2.4.22          1.2138.nptl
> >
> > It seemed a little strange to me that it's telling me that there's 2
> > kernels that are the latest release...  Obviously, I'm going to go ahead
> > and d/l and install the 2138 kernel, but I thought this behaviour was a
> > little odd, and you might want to know.
>
> I have seen this as well and I believe it is
> because I download both source and binary.
>
> So, check for kernel and kernel source rpms.
>   $ rpm -qa | grep kernel
>   kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
>   kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora
>   kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl
>   kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl
>   kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl
>
> The source may be uninstalled but downloaded because
> of a flag in  /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
>   retrieveSource[comment]=Retrieve source RPM along with binary package
>   retrieveSource=1
>
> I noted that the rpms have names that look like:
>    /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.athlon.rpm
>    /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.src.rpm
> So in my case the RPMs have the same name module athlon/src and I
> suspect that the parser in up2date does not make the difference clear.
>
>
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