Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

[Matthias Runge]

On 02/09/10 08:29, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>> Anyhow, what a waste of time all around.  I spend a couple of painful hours
>> booting and rebooting my system to try and isolate this bug and the
>> developers couldn't take two minutes to mention that they needed to post the
>> kernel and that they would address my bug some time soon.
>>
> 
> Anyhow, enough bitching.  It's unlikely to change anything.
> 
> Could someone tell me what I need to do to get yum to ignore kernel updates
> for the future.
> 
> I'll put my efforts into getting f14 to suspend and resume in the hope that
> this will work.  It may not be a high priority for the developers (on I
> guess desktops), but as a laptop user it's a must.
> 
> R.
> 
> 
Although I think, this is the wrong way, putting
exclude=kernel-*
in your /etc/yum.conf will exclude the kernel from updating.

Matthias