[TriLUG] updating multiple systems at once w/ yum

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Glen Ford wrote:

> wouldn't it be nice if something like 'yum' would just magically upgrade 
> 2.4 based servers to 2.6.2 servers?

It probably could.

Have you tried adding this to your yum.conf?

[kernel-2.6]
name=Red Hat Linux 2.6 Test Kernel
baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/

Then do a "yum upgrade".

Often when things like this don't work it's due to the .spec writer making 
unsafe assumptions and leaving out certain key requirements.  Yum only 
works with what it is given.  Garbage in, garbage out.