Kernel-2.6.16-1.13_FC2.i686
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Feb 16 15:04:17 UTC 2005
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:09:22AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:35 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > > There's also an --oldpackage option, but from the manpage, it seems
> > > that's only for upgrade's, not install's.
> >
> > Actually 'rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel.rpm' works! I've used it before.
>
> Yes, and shame on you Dave for suggesting to anybody that they should
> use --force! ;-) Really, we should be doing everything possible to
> discourage the use of --force and --nodeps unless absolutely necessary -
> use of these options often leads to screwed-up systems.
Yeah, I suck at userland. ;-)
Dave
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