[plug] re: kernel -smp conflict

[Craig Ringer]

Jon Miller wrote:
> I would have thought that the newer module/driver would overwrite the older, but for some reason that is not the case.  So either I copy it out of the kernel-smp area (which is probable the best thing and do a rpm -Uvh --force {package} to force the upgrade or delete it and rebuild the database with rpm --rebuilddb.  However, I'm not sure if the database does a check on the installed packages to see what's still on the system.  I guess I could alway do a rpm -e {package} to remove it also ... probable best bet.
> Any thoughts on this?

Try 'rpm2cpio' to convert the RPMs to CPIO archives, then just copy the 
modules out of the CPIO archives into the appropriate directories in 
/lib/modules .

Craig Ringer