On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > If you enable the kernel from the CentOSPlus repo, you should *disable* > kernel updates from the standard repo, otherwise yum will get updates > from *both* places. By disabling the kernel packages from being updated > from the standard repos (os and updates), yum won't update to a non > CentOSPlus kernel -- if the CentOSPlus has not been pushed to the > CentOSPlus repo, you just won't get a new kernel at all. (Eventually > when the CentOSPlus does get pushed, yum will pick it up.) This is best done by using the exclude= option as detailed in: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus See Example 2. Akemi