[CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

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