[Yum] Re: yum not installing most recent kernel

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:57, 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 
> > 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

Oops, missed the above in my last post. 

> > 
> > However kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3 has a newer build date.  It is indeed the 
> > newer package and should be chosen over kernel-2.4.21-15
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> 
> download yum-2.0.7 - try it there, just for S&G

FWIW I am using:
(marge pts4) # rpm -q yum
yum-2.0.7-1
(marge pts4) #

> also - what ver of rpm on your server where you're running yum-arch?


Tom

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