yum & kernel updates (rawhide-2.4/arjanv-2.6)

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 15 17:58:15 UTC 2003


Yum behavious mysteriously when mixing the 2.4/2.6 kernel repos. My
machine is an athlon box running latest rawhide. I try to use the
following with yum:

rawhide:
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/rawhide/$basearch/
2.6-kernel:
baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5

Problem 1: Cannot find the 2.6 kernel

[root at dreamcast etc]# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl
[root at dreamcast etc]# rpm -q yum
yum-2.0.3-20031010

[root at dreamcast etc]# yum update kernel
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux duke-rawhide - i386 - Base
Server: arjanv 2.6 Kernel
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No Packages Available for Update
No actions to take
[root at dreamcast etc]# 


Problem 2: Cannot find the updated 2.4 kernel - if the 2.6 rep is
specified. If I remove baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5
from yum.conf, then the following happens.

[root at dreamcast etc]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux duke-rawhide - i386 - Base
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: kernel 2.4.22-1.2093.nptl.athlon]
Is this ok [y/N]: 

Anyone able to use the 2.6 kernel rep with yum?

Thanks,
Satish







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