[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Tue Feb 26 04:37:26 UTC 2008
Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

[snip]

> Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum standpoint (as far
> as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this is beyond
> the control of yum.  As someone else mentioned, taking a look at your
> ~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.

It was empty.

> Also, could you post the output of:
> 
>   rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel

kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686

The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.

-- 
Bob Taylor