Kernel-2.6.16-1.13_FC2.i686

[David Curry]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:35 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
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>>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
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>>>There's also an --oldpackage option, but from the manpage, it seems
>>>that's only for upgrade's, not install's.
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>>Actually 'rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel.rpm' works! I've used it before.
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>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.
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>Paul.
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Greetings everyone.  I am happy to report the absence of any keyboard, 
mouse, or screen freeze ups since booting the .13 kernel at 23:31:00 
hours EST yesterday.

I appreciate everything said by all contributors to this thread.  It has 
all added to my depth of understanding (assuming the bio memory banks 
can hold the data more than a few hours :)).

Dave pointed out an important point, though.  After spending a little 
time on man rpm, I reached the same conclusion he did on the 
applicability of --oldpackage.  And, I had overlooked the --force option 
while reviewing the man pages on rpm (I accessed the man pages by 
pointing Konqueror at man: and found this morning that no white space 
separates --force and its description from the description of the 
--excludedocs option.

I also realized this morning why several attempts at running rpm last 
night while trying to install the .13 kernel failed.  I had interpreted 
options with double dash prefixes (--) as having a single dash prefix.  
So, my eyesight and system display resolution do not fully support 
reliance on pointing Konqueror at man: