[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Sat Feb 23 09:47:56 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:25 -0700, Shad L. Lords wrote:
>>> I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007
>>> according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the
>>> kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame
>>> for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with
>>> no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested.
>> What does the following command produce on your system?
>>
>> yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*'
> 
> 
> yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*'
> Setting up repositories
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00     
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Installed Packages
> kernel.i686                              2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
> installed       
> kernel.i686                              2.6.18-8.el5
> installed       
> kernel-headers.i386                      2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.cen
> installed       
> Available Packages
> kernel-doc.noarch                        2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
> updates         
> kernel-headers.i386                      2.6.18-53.1.13.el5
> updates         

based on this output ... somehow your kernel is excluded in update set, 
even though it sees kernel-doc.noarch and kernel-headers.i386.

This leads me to believe that there is a "exclude=kernel" somewhere in a 
config file:

please check /etc/yum.conf again

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