Gordon and Uncle and redhat-list.
Thanks for the replies. rpm gets the kernel version
from whatever version of package kernel is installed. The kernel
was installed form source via kernel-headers and kernel-source
on three machines. On the machine where rpm did not know the
source, I had removed package kernel-2.2.13 because it seem
pointless and on this machine only rpm had kernel version
problems.
Following is the explanation from Gordon.
--Lew
-- From: Gordon Messmer
>
>rpm -q kernel
>
>What version(s) shows up? Did you install via RPM, or rebuild from
>source? If from source, then the problem is the same one package
>managers always have with source installs: the package manager doesn't
>know about the new software.
On 07-Jul-2000 Lew Randerson opined:
> Hi,
>
> How does rpm determine the kernel version. I am having a package
> installation fail because the kernel is not greater that 2.2.5
> BUT ... I have kernel 2.2.16-3.
>
> Here's the complaint.
>
># /bin/rpm -ivh knfsd-1.4.7-7.alpha.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> kernel >= 2.2.5 is needed by knfsd-1.4.7-7
>
> Here's the version
>
># cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.2.16-3smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #4 SMP Fri Jul 7 15:06:48 EDT 2000
>
> Thanks for any comments, --Lew
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