James Pearson wrote:

I have a local yum repository for CentOS4, and from time to time I add new (custom) kernel RPMS.

However, when I run 'yum update' on an SMP box, yum 'installs' the new kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but 'updates' the kernel-smp-devel package.

i.e. I end up with multiple versions of the kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but only the latest kernel-smp-devel

What do I need to do to get the kernel-smp-devel RPMS to 'install' instead of 'update'?

put this in your /etc/yum.conf file:

installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel kernel-largesmp kernel-largesmp-devel kernel-hugemem kernel-hugemem-devel kernel-xenU kernel-xenU-devel

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James Pearson wrote:

What do I need to do to get the kernel-smp-devel RPMS to 'install' instead of 'update'?

See yum.conf(5) and search for installonlypkgs.

Cheers,

Ralph