Kernel Update

[Satish Balay]

kernel-2.6.6-1.383 is not yet in the updates. It is in the
updates-testing repository. (i.e you need an additional entry in
yum/up2date config pointing to the testing rep)

Note: testing packages can be broken (hence in testing)

Satish

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Ted Gervais wrote:

>
> Hi Alexandre and others on the list.
>
> Thanks for your input on my question regarding reconfiguring the latest
> kernel.  I ran "up2date --get kernel-source &&
>  rpm -U /var/spool/up2date/kernel-source*.rpm" as you suggested and saw that it updated the previous kernel (2.6.5-1.358) and not the latest update 2.6.6-1.383. I tried amending your little script to be specific to this kernel and it said it couldnt find it.
> Just wondering where this leaves me now, and what the next step might
> be??
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:52, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May 26, 2004, Ted Gervais <ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I just did a 'yum update' and I ended up getting my kernel upgraded to
>>> 2.6.6-1.383.  This is good but now I need to go into that kernel and
>>> make a few small config changes.  I went to /usr/src directory and no
>>> sir.  That new kernel is not there.
>>
>> kernel-source is now noarch, but it used to be i386.  Neither yum nor
>> up2date handle this gracefully.  I used this to get the kernel-source
>> package installed:
>>
>>   up2date --get kernel-source &&
>>   rpm -U /var/spool/up2date/kernel-source*.rpm
>>
>> --
>> Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
>> Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
>> Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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> Ted Gervais
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> Canada.
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