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

[David Timms]

Hiren Patel wrote:
> 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.*?
For yum to see the older kernel it must be in the repodata {made using 
createrepo}. This would tell you for sure the reason. You can add -d 15 
to get yum to more info as it performs it's work.

>> 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*'
That only does the different packages starting with kernel. I don't 
think yum can install old packages itself.

> 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
Hiren: this is actually three different packages, rather than three 
versions of the same package.

>> 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.
If those kmods can be found on freshrpms, you might prefer how the 
packaging there works - dkms automatically recompiles the kernel 
interface when you boot a different kernel and you dont have to wait for 
the repo to build one. This works nicely for at least the last 9 months 
of kernels issued for nvidia and lirc drivers.

The immediate answer to the problem is to download via http or ftp from 
a mirror that has the kernel you want, and then install it with:
yum localinstall filename.rpm  or through rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

DaveT.