On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 23:18 -0500, John Morris wrote: > Sorry everyone, time to vent. > > Bah. This is why I just blocked kernel updates in the first place. > Tried updating.... now things are worse due to a bad combination of > Fedora policy multiplied by my own stupidity. I KNEW you were supposed > to make darned sure you were running your favorite kernel before letting > yum loose. (Don't ask, long story) That was mistake number one. Number > two came when I looked to the backup server and found to my horror I > fumbled that too, / and /home safely backed up but no /boot! Double > crap! > > So now I lost the only kernel package where everything worked. And of > course Fedora doesn't have it anymore. You can pick the original > package or the current update. Triple crap! If anyone has a pointer > to kernel-2.6.31.12-174.222.x86_64.rpm I'd really appreciate it! > Google, rpmfind, etc. all come up blank as did manually poking around on > the Fedora mirrors. yum install yum-plugin-local then every pkg you install or update on your system will be saved to a local repo and will be available to you via that repo. it sucks the disk space up, obviously but you can clean it up at your leisure. -sv -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
