downgrading kernel during first yum update

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 09:45 -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    I will likely be installing the x86_64 FC6 DVD release on
> a new dual Xeon quad core system next week. However, I have
> noticed at least one of our machines with i386 FC6 installed
> has network problems under the new 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 kernel.
> Is there some way that I can force 'yum update' to skip that
> kernel release when I do the initial 'yum update' on that
> newly installed machine? I would like to be able to force it
> to install the previous 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 kernel release
> instead. Thanks in advance for any information.
>                Jack

I cazn only give you possibly half the answer. If you do:
yum --exclude="kernel*" update
then no kernel package will be installed. To install an earlier package
in seems to me that there is a yum add on package that will do that but
I can't come up with its name.

Of course it is always possible to download the kernel package from a
mirror or kernel.org and install it.


-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>