[ATrpms-users] Kernal downgrade?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Paul Williamson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Longtime MythTV user, but I don't upgrade a whole lot.  Anyway,  
> when I did a yum -y upgrade tonight, I got a dependency error about  
> upgrading to the latest kernel.  So, I upgrade just the kernel and  
> then rebooted.  Now when I attempt a yum -y upgrade, I get the  
> following error:
>
> Transaction Check Error:   package kernel-2.6.22.2-42.fc6 (which is  
> newer than kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6) is already installed
>
> How can I force the installation of the older kernel?  I think I  
> remember how to set the boot preference to a specific kernel, so at  
> this point I just want to get MYthTV back up and running, and I  
> don't think I can until I get this kernel issue sorted out.

Yum should have downloaded the older kernel into /var/cache/yum/ 
<somewhere>, so you can just 'rpm -ivh --oldpackage <older kernel>'.  
I think there may be a plugin or a flag for yum to permit installing  
older packages, but I've yet to actually get off my duff and look  
into it, I usually just install older stuff as prescribed above...

--jarod