Hiren Patel wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 17:51 -0700, Craig Huff wrote:
If (as I can see from the fedora-updates repository for FC6 at the moment) there exist
first thought, which mirror is this, you are sure that it correctly
offers both kernels to other machines?
two generations of the kernel:
kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6.i686
and
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6.i686,
how do I get yum to download and install *.2948.*?
For yum to see the older kernel it must be in the repodata {made using
createrepo}. This would tell you for sure the reason. You can add -d 15
to get yum to more info as it performs it's work.
I can explicitly specify until I'm blue in the keyboard and get told it "don't exist"
even though I can see it on the web page.
If I enter:
# yum list available kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6.i686 kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6.i686
I only get returned:
Available Packages
kernel.i686 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 krnlrpms
does this list both kernels?
yum list available 'kernel*'
That only does the different packages starting with kernel. I don't
think yum can install old packages itself.
i see options for more than one kernel, but i am using centos.
Available Packages
kernel.i586 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.cento
centosplus
kernel-PAE.i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.cento
centosplus
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.cento
centosplus
Hiren: this is actually three different packages, rather than three
versions of the same package.
My reason for wanting to do this is there are ancillary *-kmdl-* packages that don't
exist (yet?) for the 2952 release that have been built for the 2948 release and I'm still
on 2944, so I'd kinda like to move along.
If those kmods can be found on freshrpms, you might prefer how the
packaging there works - dkms automatically recompiles the kernel
interface when you boot a different kernel and you dont have to wait for
the repo to build one. This works nicely for at least the last 9 months
of kernels issued for nvidia and lirc drivers.
The immediate answer to the problem is to download via http or ftp from
a mirror that has the kernel you want, and then install it with:
yum localinstall filename.rpm or through rpm -Uvh filename.rpm
DaveT.
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