Continued kernel updates for F14?

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
>> >> $ yumdownloader --source <package>
>> >>
>> > That's true if you are getting the package for the currently running
>> > system, and it is how I get src.rpm packages on F15.  But doing
>> > that on F14 will not get an F15 package.  The OP is running F14 and
>> > wants newer kernels.  I didn't, however, check whether
>> > yumdownloader has an option like yum to set other repositories
>> > while dowloading.  There could be, and in that case your suggestion
>> > will work with a little tweaking.
>>
>> $ yumdownloader --releasever=15 --source <package>
>>
>
> Thanks for that.  After your post I looked at the options for
> yumdownloader, and it turns out it inherits options from yum, and this
> is one of them.  Here's what it says about that option:
>
> --releasever=version
>              Pretend the current release version is the given string.
> This is very useful when  combined  with --installroot. Note that with
...
>
> Do you know if a  yum clean meta  would clean up the cache corruption
> after doing this?

It appears to store the information separately. I haven't had any
problems using this. I don't think you need to do anything afterwards.


> Does this mean it is possible to update a non-running system by using
> releasever and installroot? e.g. update F14 from F15
> yum -y update --releasever=14 --installdir=<path to F14 root>

I would think so but have never tried that. I usually do the 'chroot
/mtn/sysimage' method.After that I would think it would properly
detect the release of the chroot regardless of the rescue system you
booted.

Richard