Install of the later versions of kernel-headers packages conflicts with files from the older versions of kernel-header packages
Issue
- Unable to patch kernel-headers
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While installing kernel-header package 2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 using rpm -ivh, it errors out with conflict file error as given below
file /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/asm-x86_64/msr.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/fs.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/if_ether.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/if_tun.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/ipmi.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/ipmi_msgdefs.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/mii.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/nfs_fs.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/nl80211.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/pci_ids.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 file /usr/include/linux/pci_regs.h from install of kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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