there are various tools available to modify the rpm database
interactively...
For example
modify_rpmdb-0.1.tar.gz
Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dhiran Rajbhandari typed:
> > But when I use the rpm -q kernel kernel-headers etc, I got the old
> > version details and when I use uname -r It shows the current version
> > of kernel which I configured and installed. Is it because of not
> > installing the kernel from RPM packages that's why it's not able to
> > update the database?
>
> Yes, it's because the old RPM is still installed, so RPM does not know
> that you have cunningly upgraded your kernel without telling it. ;-)
> If you want to do everything the RedHat way, you'd have to installed
> the RedHat RPM, then the RPM database will be fine. But most people
> compile kernels from source. It doesn't matter that the rpm query
> shows an old kernel version - the `uname` is proof enough that the new
> kernel is running.
>
> > And also please advise me if I may have to do more with kernel
> > updation.
>
> Do it the same way - download a patch for the next kernel, patch the
> kernel and compile, install etc. as detailed in the Kernel-HOWTO and
> /usr/src/linux/README.
>
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