Fwd: updating the rpm database

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

For your information - I picked this nice one from a Redhat list a couple of 
days ago and tried it out on RH 7.1 with a pristine 2.4.18 kernel source.
After changing a Makefile line to read
EXTRAVERSION = -1 #to conform to RH nomenclature, thanks for the hint, Mike#
and
#make mrproper
#make xconfig rpm 
and about 30 minutes of waiting I really had my
kernel-2.4.181-1.i386.rpm, on which I did rpm -ivh ...for real (not 
--justdb), et voil?, I had vmlinuz-2.4.18-1 (and the corresponding 
System.map) in my boot directory.
Wonder if this works on Caldera distros too.
Klaus

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Subject: updating the rpm database
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 06:31:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Ian Firla <ian at maul.deepsky.com>
To: seawolf-list at redhat.com

I hope this is of help to others.

I've been building and running custom kernels on my Redhat systems. Until
the recent updates to XFree that up2date (and Ximian's Redcarpet) were
offering demanded the latest Redhat kernel, I'd never run into problems.

Even though I was running 2.4.16 (and now 2.4.18), I was unable to run the
updates to my systems.

Alan Cox has recently added a 'make xconfig rpm' option to the kernel
packages.

if you run that, you'll end up with your new kernel in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<your architecture>/ directory

Then a simple "rpm -ivh --justdb" issued on that kernel rpm, updates your
db to the current Kernel you're running.

Issuing an rpm -e --justdb <old kernel #> will also clean out old kernel
info in that DB for you if things are getting out of control!

The once thing I remain unclear on though is how to update the antiquated
headers and other info returned by  rpm -qa | grep kernel

kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.24-2
kernel-drm-stub-4.1.0-0.ximian.1
kernel-BOOT-2.4.2-2
kernel-2.4.18-12
kernel-headers-2.4.9-12

Best wishes,

Ian

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Dr Ian Firla
Robert Graves Trust
St John's College, Oxford
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