[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Tue Feb 19 11:47:48 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Feb 18, 2008 10:56 PM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
> repo id         repo name                           status
> priority
> =======         =========                           ======
> ========
> rpmforge        Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled         99
> base            CentOS-5 - Base                     enabled         99
> updates         CentOS-5 - Updates                  enabled         99
> c5-media        CentOS-5 - Media                    disabled        99
> centosplus      CentOS-5 - Plus                     enabled         99
> addons          CentOS-5 - Addons                   enabled         99
> extras          CentOS-5 - Extras                   enabled         99
>
> Looks OK to me. What the hell is our problem? All my updates are via
> yum. I received 1 updated kernel in September and none since.

In addition to what Ray Van Dolson suggested... you need to set up
priorities according to:

http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

Akemi