[Yum] How to get less than the very best?

[Hiren Patel]

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.*?
> 
> 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*'

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
..
..

> 
> 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.
> 
> I need a clue.
> 
> Craig.
> 
> 
> 
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Hiren Patel

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