[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
> > installonlypkgs
>  > List  of  packages  that  should  only  ever be installed, never
>  > updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to
>  > 'kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug,
>  > kernel-unsupported'.
>  >
>  > What I missed is "never updated". If this is my problem, how do I fix
>  > it?
>
>  This just means that the newer kernels will be installed instead of
>  replacing the old kernels packages.  It doesn't mean that newer kernels
>  will not be installed at all.
>
>  Sheesh, I thought you got your update issues sorted out a long time
>  ago. :)  Just give someone from this list root on your box already so we
>  can see this for ourselves. :)

Yes, that seems to be the best solution at this point.  You can
definitely trust Johnny Hughes if you ask who that someone should be.

Akemi