Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs. / Every OS sucks!

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 23:18 -0500, John Morris wrote:
> Sorry everyone, time to vent.
> 
> Bah.  This is why I just blocked kernel updates in the first place.
> Tried updating.... now things are worse due to a bad combination of
> Fedora policy multiplied by my own stupidity.  I KNEW you were supposed
> to make darned sure you were running your favorite kernel before letting
> yum loose. (Don't ask, long story)  That was mistake number one.  Number
> two came when I looked to the backup server and found to my horror I
> fumbled that too, / and /home safely backed up but no /boot!  Double
> crap!
> 
> So now I lost the only kernel package where everything worked.  And of
> course Fedora doesn't have it anymore.  You can pick the original
> package or the current update.  Triple crap!   If anyone has a pointer
> to kernel-2.6.31.12-174.222.x86_64.rpm I'd really appreciate it!
> Google, rpmfind, etc. all come up blank as did manually poking around on
> the Fedora mirrors.

yum install yum-plugin-local

then every pkg you install or update on your system will be saved to a
local repo and will be available to you via that repo.

it sucks the disk space up, obviously but you can clean it up at your
leisure.

-sv