redhat 7.3 and fedora legacy kernel fix question

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 12 April 2004 16:24, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 1.) I updated my system using `yum update`, and it auto-
>     updated a few userland utils, but for some reason it didn't
>     update my 2.4.20 kernel RPM. Not sure why.
>
>     Here's the list of RPMs it DID upgrade:
>
>     # rpm -q -a | grep legacy
>     libpcap-0.6.2-17.7.3.4.legacy
>     arpwatch-2.1a11-17.7.3.4.legacy
>     cvs-1.11.1p1-9.7.legacy
>     yum-1.0.3-6.0.7.x.legacy
>     tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.3.4.legacy
>     screen-3.9.11-4.legacy
>     slocate-2.7-1.7.3.legacy
>
>     I'm instead downloading the kernel RPM manually from here:
>
>        
> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/RH7.3/2004-03-02-FLSA_2004_1284__
>Updated_kernel_resolves_security_vulnerabilities.html
>
>     Does anyone have an explanation for that behavior?

Yum, by default, ignores packages that match "kernel*".  Edit your 
/etc/yum.conf file to change this.  Yum on 7.x mimics up2date on  7.x 
which did the same (ignore kernel by default).

> 2.) Does Fedora Legacy offer any additional functionality and/or
>     general redhat 7.3 discussion, or should I go elsewhere
>     for that? Is this strictly a security update forum, in other
>     words?
>
>     I ask because I'm having trouble with iptables + ethernet
>     bridging with my stock Redhat 2.4.20 kernel (seems that bridge
>     traffic doesn't pass through iptables with that kernel), and
>     I was wondering if that bug was maybe fixed in the Fedora
>     Legacy kernel updates?

This list is mostly for things related to the Fedora Legacy project.  
Red Hat currently hosts, and will continue to host, a end user mailing 
list for Red Hat Linux, with specific lists for each release.  I can't 
recall off the top of my head what the code name for 7.3 was, but the 
list will be named after the codename. 

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