[CentOS] Centos 6.4 - yum update gives: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware

Tue Mar 12 11:45:11 UTC 2013
Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net>

On 11/03/2013 16:55, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 08:30 AM, Tru Huynh wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:24:17PM +0000, Giles Coochey wrote:
>>> Yes - I use my own local repo and don't sync the 'os' part - I
>>> assumed that was going to be static and only updated with 'updates'
>> you can't update to 6.4 from 6.3 with only updates, you MUST have 6.4/os and 6.4/update
>>
>> The os ([base]) part is unchanged during the 6.n lifetime, not during the 6.n -> 6.n+1.
>>
> In other words ... we just updated from CentOS-6.3 to CentOS-6.4 ... so
> the OS directory and the UPDATES directories both changed ... so your
> assumption is incorrect.
>
> This is because, 6.4/os is not the same as 6.3/os.  Remember that the OS
> directory is what is on the ISOs ... that obviously updates if we move
> to a newer point release and release new ISOs.
>
> You know what they say about assume :D
>
So I rsync'd with 6 os on the mirrors and everything works now. Thanks 
for clarifying.

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