On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Brian Ferguson wrote: > Greetings, > > I think I've found a bug in yum-arch. We're using yum 2.0.4 (I know, > not the newest version) on RHEL3, and "yum update" is not installing the > newest kernel in the repository: > > chicken [1048] ls |grep kernel-2.4.21-15 > kernel-2.4.21-15.0.2.EL.athlon.rpm > kernel-2.4.21-15.0.2.EL.i686.rpm > kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.athlon.rpm > kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.i686.rpm > kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.athlon.rpm > kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.rpm > > chicken [1049] cd headers > chicken [1049] ls |grep kernel > (snip) > kernel-0-2.4.21-15.EL.athlon.hdr > kernel-0-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.hdr > > > I did a yum-arch -vv -z . in the repository directory when I created the You do not need the -z option. It is the default. > headers, and saw the following lines: > > Digesting rpm - kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.i686.rpm - 229/604 > ignoring older pkg: kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.i686.rpm > > However kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3 has a newer build date. It is indeed the Build date has nothing to do with it. The version numbers in the rpm header are what rpm/yum uses. > newer package and should be chosen over kernel-2.4.21-15 > > Thoughts? It WORKSFORME using the exact set of kernels. Are you sure you are pointing your yum.conf file at the correct place? I had a brain fart awhile back and rebuilt the yum headers in the wrong directory. Like you I thought there was a problem with yum. It turned out to be a classic case of PEBKC. :-) FWIW this happened when I put the latest kernels for RHEL also. HTH, Tom
