[WBEL-users] Issues to yum / WBEL

[Ed]

apt-get doesn't upgrade the kernel automatically becase it's possible 
then that your system won't boot.  maybe yum is configured the same way?

Stefan Sabolowitsch wrote:
> Hi List / NG
> 
> Why does yum not see any kernel update "yum update kernel" ?
> Yet up2date recognizes directly that a kernelupdate is available.
> Anyway I have the feeling that the updates recognizes up2date better /
> quickly.
> 
> Why is that like this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> Infos:
> 
> Yum.conf
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=whitebox-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=20
> failovermethod=roundrobin
> gpgcheck=1
> exclude=kernel*
> 
> [base]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basear
> ch/
>  
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>  
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$ba
> search/
>  
> ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>  
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>  
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
> 
> [updates-released]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/updates/
>  
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
>  
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/updates/
>         ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
>  
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/update
> s/
>         ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/updates/
>         ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
> 
> [dag]
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/$basearch/dag
> 
> #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.
> 
> sources
> yum WBEL3 http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/$ARCH
> yum WBEL3-Updates http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates
> yum WBEL3-Extras http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/extras
> 
> yum-mirror WBEL3 http://whiteboxlinux.org/up2date-mirrors/wbel3-base
> yum-mirror WBEL3-Updates
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/up2date-mirrors/wbel3-updates
> yum-mirror WBEL3-Extras
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/up2date-mirrors/wbel3-extras
> <http://whiteboxlinux.org/up2date-mirrors/wbel3-extras> 
> 
> 
> 
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