Kernel Update

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 26, 2004, Ted Gervais <ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca> wrote:

> I just did a 'yum update' and I ended up getting my kernel upgraded to
> 2.6.6-1.383.  This is good but now I need to go into that kernel and
> make a few small config changes.  I went to /usr/src directory and no
> sir.  That new kernel is not there.

kernel-source is now noarch, but it used to be i386.  Neither yum nor
up2date handle this gracefully.  I used this to get the kernel-source
package installed:

  up2date --get kernel-source &&
  rpm -U /var/spool/up2date/kernel-source*.rpm

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