highpte.h error when upgrading kernel.

Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 12 20:59:57 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:12:08AM +0100, WipeOut wrote:

> 
> Just did a new minimum isnatall and then ran "yum update" which upgraded 
> the kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 from 2.6.5-1.358..
> 
> When updating I got the error..
> 
> Failed to hardlink /<blah new kernel>/highpte.h to /<blah old 
> kernel>/highpte.h
> 
> Is this a major problem?

It is not a problem unless you build something
that needs the header file as best I can tell from here.

Note:  <blah new kernel> covers a lot of stuff.
Make sure that you hand update the src package if
you have it.

Recall the name change for the kernel source package.
Today I  see:
    kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.3


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