Fedora 5 How to allow older kernel with YUM

[mircobeaker]

Hello there everybody.
I am in a YUM hell. I am trying to install the planetccrma-kernel-edge alongside the fedora kernel 2.6.16.-1.2122
nad yum complains that the planetccrma kernel is older than the one installed.
I followed all the instructions on the Planetccrma site disabling and commenting out the parts of yum.conf relative to installation and plugins but still I have no luck at all.

How can I disable this feature in yum.conf/


Thanks

[bob]

This might be a time to use the '--force' option from here: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-intro-...t-started.html Keep in mind that you want to use 'rpm -ivh --force' and not 'rpm -Uvh --force' to avoid the new kernel from replacing the existing kernel.

[mircobeaker]

Before receiving your reply I went on and uninstalled the default kernel and then rebooted via rescue disk. I installed the planetccrma-kernel-edge first and then installed again the latest kernel together with all the packages that were uninstalled (gnome-session/gnome-volume-manager and pcmciautils)
and unfortunately when I rebooted I only found the windows xp option on grub and no way to boot into fedora again.
I think i might have messed the whole kernel up.
I am gonna try and uninstall the kernels again and reinstall the default one to see if that solves the prob.
But.. is there another way of allowing installation of older kernel (like the one from ccrma) without using rpm -ivh but only using yum/yumex?

Thanks for your reply


Mirco

[bob]

OUCH! Well, good luck on that one. I checked 'man yum' for some option there and can't find any that would apply. Of course, yumex is built on yum, so I don't think it will help. Here's an online list of options: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumDocs Perhaps someone will jump in with the workaround though.