Re: [CentOS] Yum Update

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Ya i couldn't find alternative setting for pkgpolicy either though the
more I think about it the less i care. I would prefer it stay set to
newest. That *does* seem to be why i don't see many of the older
packages even though i'm saying to list all.

I find it interesting that a yum update always grabs the newest kernel
regardless of repository or kernel type. e.g. if i run the unsupported
hugemem kernel and a newer one comes out that is supported hugemem,
it'll install that even though it's not the unsupported kernel. I've
also seen it install the regular smp kernel and not the hugemem one
because the regular smp kernel was newer. It seems to only care about
what kernel is newest and doesn't take context into consideration.
Sometimes that'll be from the centosplus repository if i have it
enabled, sometime it'll be from the regular repo.. The bottom line is
it's best to run yum update carefully when looking for a newer kernel
esp if you're dealing with some specific support requirement such as
in my case where i'm looking for hugemem, smp, and XFS support.

Gerald

On 7/6/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:40 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:25 -0700, Gerald wrote:
> > Great feedback. You are all dodging around the basic question though
> > and thats why doesn't centosplus show all it's kernels when i do the
> > yum list all kernel*?
>
> Maybe you don't have your config file adjusted to suit your needs? As
> delivered, the yum.conf has
>
>   pkgpolicy=newest
>
> I don't find docs for this param in the normal man/info pages.

Since curiosity often results in death to well-known felines, and I
don't want to become collarateral damage, I did a little googling for
you. Not helpful except to maybe discount any value at all for the
parameter I mention. From

   http://72.14.209.104/search?
q=cache:mMPirhs9kFAJ:www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article.pdf+pkgpolicy+yum+configure+OR+configuration+-newest&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

we get this snippet
-----------------------------------------------
pkgpolicy can be set to determine the order in which yum chooses to
decide
between two versions of the same package on different repositories it is
using
at the same time.
-------------------------------------------------

So, no gain, just pain I guess. I wish they'd doc this crap where it
belongs and save us all (?) some time.
>
> >
> > centosplus repo *is* enabled in my Centos-Base.repo file.
> > <snip>
>
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