Gene Heskett wrote: > Which is what I'm doing, using yum to upgrade 5 or 6 packages at a > time. One thing its refusing to do is to update iptables. This box > has always had a custom kernel on it, currently running a pretty old > 2.4.23 something or other with Con Kovolas 'ck6' patchset applied. > I'm not alergic to building a newer kernel, but how do I go about > telling yum that the kernel installed is compatible, or even better, > than the one its looking for? Two options: * You turn the custom kernel into an RPM and install it that way. Then the RPM database knows you've got a recent kernel. * You let yum install the kernel it wants, but just don't use it. Hope this helps, James. -- James Wilkinson | They say the heat and the flies here can drive a man Exeter Devon UK | insane. But you don't have to believe that, and nor E-mail address: james | does that bright mauve elephant that just cycled @westexe.demon.co.uk | past. -- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
