[Yum] Is this a FRB, Frequently Reported Bug?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:02 -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> I'm sorry if you have gotten this 381 times already, but on the long 
> shot that no one reported this one...
> 
> As part of a debug exercise, I'm in the process of building a brand 
> spanking new Red Hat 9 box from the CDs that I've been lovingly carrying 
> around all these years.  My goal:  load the system, then use Yum to 
> bring everything up to date.  Well...
> 
> >   
> > Looking in Installed Packages:
> > Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > kernel                              i686   2.4.20-8                 db
> 
> The problem is that the version for the most up-to-date kernel is 
> 2.4.20-37.  Oops.  I guest that 8 is greater than 37 in this context.
> 
> I already know your next question!
> 

> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > yum                                 noarch 2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90       db
> 
> One good thing came out of this -- I've now been exposed to Python. 
> Something new to learn every day.
> 
> I ran into something like this when I wrote an RPM package manager. 
> What did I end up doing?  I took any digit string and made it ten digits 
> long before making comparisons between names.  So, for example, I would 
> expand the current Yum verion:
> 
>    2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90
> 

okay so first off:
1. why do you think kernel -37 is available?
2. what repositories are you using?
3. why are you using such an old version of yum?

-sv