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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