How to keep an old kernel?

[Jim]

On 10/09/2013 07:40 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running Fedora-19/KDE on a Thinkpad T61.
> I had serious problems with hibernation
> when kernel-3.11 first came on the scene.
> Things have slightly improved now,
> but I still occasionally have what seems like
> the same problem, one symptom being that I cannot shutdown
> except by pressing the power button.
>
> In any case, I have one 3.10 kernel in my three grub kernels.
> I'm yum-updating with exclude=kernel* to avoid losing this kernel.
> But I'm wondering if there is some way of telling yum
> that I want to keep this kernel, but would like to update
> the current kernel?
>

Hers is how to do it.

In Fedora repo there is a package named  
"yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.31-10.fc18.noarch" install it.

Do a rpm -qa | grep kernel and something like this will appear ;

$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-3.9.3-201.fc18.i686
kernel-modules-extra-3.9.2-200.fc18.i686
kernel-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.7-1.fc18.i686
kernel-modules-extra-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
kernel-modules-extra-3.9.3-201.fc18.i686
kernel-3.9.2-200.fc18.i686
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.1.7-1.fc18.i686

Goto /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list and open empty file, in this 
file copy and paste, example;

kernel-3.9.3-201.fc18.i686
kernel-modules-extra-3.9.3-201.fc18.i686

Which is latest kernel, and yum will no longer update kernel and dep. 
packages.
Save versionlock.list and go back to enjoying Fedoraa.