yum does not pull in the 2129 kernel

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Sun Dec 14 00:35:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:01:36 -0500, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

> > Do what works for you. By default, up2date is configured to ignore kernel
> > update packages. You can reconfigure that or choose the "force" option.
> 
> None of that worked for the following reason:
> I have installed the 2.6 test kernel as well
> So, I had to manually download. Then force an rpm install.

Of course, because kernel 2.6 is newer than 2.4. up2date and yum are used
to keep your system up-to-date, that means, install the newest available
software, not go back to older packages.

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