[CentOS] Firewire/IEEE1394 support on centos.plus repro and yum update

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Emmanuel Borlet <emmanuel.borlet at yoni.fr> wrote:
> Helo,
>
> I'm trying to update a centos server with a kernel form the centos.plus
> repro because it contain Firewire/IEEE1394 support.
> But when y do a :
> # yum update
> The kernel from the base is more recent thant the centos plus repro
> I have tried with the
> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities plug-in and it
> didn't take the right kernel :
>
> ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.2/centosplus/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6
> .18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus.i686.rpm
> But the
> ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18
> -92.1.10.el5.i686.rpm
>
> How i can force kernel choice form centos plus ?
>
> Thank's for your help
>
> Emmanuel Borlet
>
>
> See :
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
>
> [base]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&
> repo=os
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> priority=1
>
> #released updates
> [updates]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&
> repo=updates
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Please check out:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus

Make sure you set the priority correctly for all repositories AND
exclude kernel etc from the base and updates as seen in Example 2 in
the wiki article.

Akemi