yum does not pull in the 2129 kernel

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:49, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:13:49 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 02:18, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:45:36 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > 
> > > > How can I get yum to pull in the updates from Fedora?
> > > > 
> > > > I have checked the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file and it seems to be in
> > > > order.   What am I missing?
> > > 
> > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources is for up2date, not yum. yum is configured
> > > in /etc/yum.conf
> >
> > However up2date calls yum via the sources file. 
> 
> No, it doesn't. It has builtin support for yum and does not depend
> on the external yum.
> 
> > Should I forget about
> > up2date and use yum directly?
> 
> Do what works for you. By default, up2date is configured to ignore kernel
> update packages. You can reconfigure that or choose the "force" option.

None of that worked for the following reason:
I have installed the 2.6 test kernel as well
So, I had to manually download. Then force an rpm install.


[root at matrix RedHat]# uname -a
Linux matrix 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at matrix RedHat]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm
warning: kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
        package kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.93 (which is newer than
kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl) is already installed
        package kernel-2.6.0-0.test11.1.100 (which is newer than
kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl) is already installed
[root at matrix RedHat]# rpm -ivh --force 
kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm
warning: kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:kernel                 ###########################################
[100%]



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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>