[CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Wed Oct 15 12:14:59 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 04:04 -0700, Spike Turner wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> > Since CentOS has not announced them yet, I would guess that
> > is the case.
> > There would also be a small delay while the mirrors get
> > synchronized.
> >
>
> This appears to be the upstream details on the kernel
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0859.html
>
> Even after a week the kernel update has not been announced
> yet by CentOS?
>
> With posts like these
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16691&forum=27
> about a buggy kernel one would expect the newest kernel to be eagerly awaited.
The key word is "awaited". I suspect the real life has intervened to
slow the completion steps need to release these updates. Sans security
issues, real life could be expected to have priority. However, not being
a team member, I'm only speculating here.
>
> Spike
> <snip sig stuff>
--
Bill
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