[TriLUG] CentOS 5.4 + Yum Madness

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Tue Mar 23 07:48:58 EDT 2010


As it looks like you have a centosplus kernel, have you tried:

'yum install kernel-devel --includerepo=centosplus'   ?


On 3/15/10 6:39 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Brian Weaver said the following on 3/15/2010 5:41 PM:
>    
>> [root at localhost yum]# yum clean all
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Cleaning up Everything
>> Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
>> [root at localhost yum]# yum list | grep -i kernel
>> kernel.i686                             2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus
>> kernel-doc.noarch                       2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus
>> kernel-headers.i386                     2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus
>> yum-kernel-module.noarch                1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1        updates
>>      
> So you're using a CentOSplus kernel.  I've got the same kernel installed
> on a server at home and see this when I run 'yum list available kernel\*'
>
> circle:lance ~ $ sudo yum list available kernel\*
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   * epel: serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org
>   * base: mirror.skiplink.com
>   * updates: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
>   * extras: mirror.ubiquityservers.com
>   * centosplus: ftp.linux.ncsu.edu
>   * addons: ftp.lug.udel.edu
> Available Packages
> kernel.i686              2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-PAE.i686          2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-PAE-devel.i686    2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-debug.i686        2.6.18-164.11.1.el5               updates
> kernel-debug-devel.i686  2.6.18-164.11.1.el5               updates
> kernel-devel.i686        2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-doc.noarch        2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-headers.i386      2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-xen.i686          2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
> kernel-xen-devel.i686    2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus   centosplus
>
> You might manually check the centosplus mirror your machine is pulling
> from.  It might be out of date or something.
>
> --[Lance]
>
>    




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