Re: CentOS6.2: installation at specific kernel level

[Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/12/2012 7:08 AM Cal Sawyer spake the following:
> Hi, all
> 
> I have a number of machines that are out of sync with one another by
> virtue of having done a yum update after a base 6.2 install at different
> times (all were previous CentOS 5.3)  Consequently, systems are a mix of
> 2.6.32-220.7.1, 2.6.32-220.13.1 or 2.6.32-220.17.1.
> 
> So 2 questions: 
>    -  Is it possible to perform a yum update (or another other kind of
> update), specifying installation of, say, kernel 2.6.32-220.17.1 along
> with the packages that were relevant at the time when 2.6.32-220.17.1
> was current?
>    -  Is it possible to capture and save for future installations the
> current kernel rev and associated packages as exist in the repos today
> and install as a "frozen-in-time" distribution?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> - c sawyer
> 
Why? Old kernels have flaws... That is why a new one was released...



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