On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Ian Firla wrote:
> .... But as Andrew Smith suggested:
>
> > Most likely, you didn't use RPM to install the new kernel
> > thus RPM doens't know anything about it.
> > If you add any software at all to the computer without using
> > RPM to install it then you have problems:
> > 1) RPM doesn't even know it exists
> > 2) dependencies on "packages" that have been manually installed
> > without RPM will not work
>
> So the trouble now is getting up2date and redcarpet to recognise my own
> kernel. Is there anyway of adding / editing entries to / in the rpm
> database?
>
There must be a way of doing that, but I don't know it. Instead you
could copy the kernel rpm's from Redhat's site or from a mirror, then
install them yourself, after finding out how such a thing is done -- see
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
One of the effects of the procedure will be to update the rpm database.
> On that topic, I've taken gcc up to 3.02. Am I to understand that since I
> also did this without using rpm that I might run into trouble if/when
> up2date is trying to do something that requires an update to gcc 2.96?
>
Yes.
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Steven Yellin
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