Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: kernel (fc3)

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)]

Henry Hartley wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:17 AM Nils Breunese said:
>>>
>>> Henry Hartley wrote:
>>>> Uname says I'm running 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, which seems quite a bit
>>>> older than this announced kernel.  Yum appears to have have
>>>> installed four newer kernels but I haven't rebooted in over six
>>>> months so they aren't being used.  In any case, I thought I
>>>> should update to this one and reboot.  But when I run yum update
>>>> kernel it tells me I have nothing to update.
>>>>
>>>> My yum repo files seem to be correct, as I've gotten openssh,
>>>> httpd, and mod_ssl updates recently.
>>>
>>> The kernel update just hit updates-testing, but hasn't been
>>> released yet into the updates channel. I think you may have yum
>>> configured to only use the updates channel, not updates-testing?
>
> Yes, that seems to be the problem.  I have base, updates, and utils  
> but
> not testing.  Is it recommended that I have testing or am I safer with
> what I have?

I don't think there is a problem reallu. If you're prepared to do QA  
on a test machine (see http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/ 
QATesting) you will need to enable the testing repository. Enabling  
the updates-testing channel on a production system is not recommended.

Nils Breunese.