[CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 Public QA Buildtag 140617

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 12:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 01:49:05PM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> >> On 18/06/14 12:55, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >>> On 06/18/2014 01:37 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >>>> hi
> >>>>
> >>>> builds from 2014 06 17 are now online, the entire tree is refreshed and
> >>>> livecd + livemedia-gnome and livemedia-kde  are also available.
> >>> There is a 'latest' symlink for the tree's at
> >>> http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/ - if anyone is using that, then
> >>> make sure you are running 'yum distro-sync' often.
> >>>
> >>> >From the yum man page :
> >>>
> >>>   distribution-synchronization or distro-sync
> >>>     Synchronizes the installed package set with the latest  packages
> >>>     available, this is done by either obsoleting, upgrading or down-
> >>>     grading as appropriate. This will "normally" do the  same  thing
> >>>     as  the  upgrade  command  however  if  you have the package FOO
> >>>     installed at version 4, and the latest available is only version
> >>>     3, then this command will downgrade FOO to version 3.
> >>>
> >>>     This  command does not perform operations on groups, local pack-
> >>>     ages or negative selections.
> >>>
> >> Just to add that , to play it nice and safe, it would even be better to
> >> force reinstall of packages using the same N-E-V-R, but with different
> >> checksums (to be sure that you're really using the packages from the
> >> latest tree)
> >> So "yum distro-sync full" is somewhat preferred :
> > I just tried "yum distro-sync full" and I get an error about there
> > not being a kernel to delete. but if I ran without the "full", I
> > got a bunch of updates. 
> >
> You may have to 'yum reinstall kernel' manually ... it does not like to
> update that.
> 

# yum reinstall kernel
Loaded plugins: langpacks
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
Error: Nothing to do

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