[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Sat Feb 23 09:05:16 UTC 2008


Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> <snip>
>>> <snip>
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Priority *and* protect? Supposed to be a no-no.
>>
>> Worse, it's on the updates too. I would carefully examine all your repo
>> defs and have *either* protect or priority, but not both. Also make sure
>> the settings are appropriate sionce you've add some other repos.
> 
> Thanks for your response, Bill. I added the protect lines attempting to
> locate this problem. I've removed all protect lines.
> 
>> I've been using Rpmforge for a long time, NP. But at the time I
>> established priorities, I disabled all protect settings.
>>
>> And there are a couple exclude and include setups for a few special
>> instances.
> 
> Mind telling me what these are?
> 

"protect=N" is part of the protectbase plugin.  You do not want to 
install the protectbase and priorities plugins on the same machine.

Looking at your output of yum-\* you do not seem to have yum-protectbase 
installed, so the settings by themselves should not matter.





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