yum not updating kernel on rh7.3?

[Mitch Marks]

On 7.2 and 7.3 I'm not seeing anything downloaded when I explicitly run

    yum install kernel

or

    yum update kernel

Would these also be affected by the "exclude=kernel*" setting?

Thanks,

  Mitch Marks


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Seth Shoemaker wrote:

> Does your yum.conf file have a line like this in it?
>
> exclude=kernel*
>
> If so, take it out and it will upgrade the kernel
>
> Seth Shoemaker
>
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> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 13:19 PM
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> Subject: yum not updating kernel on rh7.3?
>
> I'm a little confused. I followed the instructions to make use of yum on
> my
> rh7.3 server as published at: http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh7x.php
> and
> it has updated some packages correctly (ie; elm, ethereal), but does not
>
> grab the recent kernel update. I've tried various mirrors, but that
> doesn't
> seem to help.  I'm currently running kernel-2.4.20-28.7. I'm sure it's
> something simple I'm missing.
>
> vb
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