On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote: > On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > If you have your own mirror, the easiest way would be to get those > > bz321111 kernels in your repo. Johnny Hughes or other CentOS devs > > need to chime in here about the plan for those kernels, but my (wild) > > guess is that those kernels stay there until they are no longer > > needed, namely until 5.2 comes out in which the NFS bug is > > (supposedly) fixed. > > > Well, the way I set up my mirror is by rsync'ing the entire directory > structure from one of the public mirrors. What are the steps I would have > to run to update my local mirror to include Johnny's RPMs? I would also > have to redo this update after every rsync. And how will these kernels then > be automatically installed if they are in the repo? This does not seem to > be that easy. Regarding how to set up your own local repo, please refer to this CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalRepos Then you should be able to install the kernel from your local repo in the same way as you did with the centosplus kernel. > > Or else, depending on how soon the next kernel update comes out, you > > may want to wait for the centosplus kernel with the vesa framebuffer > > support turned on (provided the change is made in the next release). > > I will do my best in reminding Johnny of the corrections. :-) > > > Any chance this will happen before next Wednesday? That's when I'm > planning to start my upgrades... I doubt it, but you never know because this is up to our upstream vendor. Akemi