up2date incorrectly says kernel is already updated

[Mike Klinke]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:39, Don wrote:
> I tried to get the new 2138 kernel this morning.... here's a
> transcript of the console using up2date -i ...
> It says the requested packages are already updated... but an rpm-q
> kernel says otherwise.
>
> Even though it says "the following... were skipped due to
> configuration, I've been able to get kernel updates this way when
> explicitly requested. That's how I got the first two updates after
> my initial clean install.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
> [root at rocky root]# up2date -i kernel kernel-doc kernel-source
>

If the kernel stuff is in your skip list you'll have to use the -f 
(force) switch to override the skips.  

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

You may also want to choose a mirror site to download from.

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html