up2date and kernel source

Nitin nitinmehta at kappa.net.in
Tue Aug 17 10:22:08 UTC 2004


use up2date -uf

-f will force the installation even if it's on skip list

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Ison" <pison at martlets.co.uk>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:14 PM
Subject: up2date and kernel source


> I am using kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL. When I try to download the kernel 
> source kernel-source-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL through red hat network, I get the 
> error "Failed: some of the packages specified were on a skip list". I 
> take it this refers to the setting in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date to skip 
> any packages beginning with "         kerneli.e.pkgSkipList=kernel.Thatis
> a generated file which should not be edited.
> 
> I see there is a package kernel-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL.src.rpm downloadable 
> from http://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/3ES/en/os/SRPMS/
> 
> Could anyone tell me if the content of these two packages are the same, 
> and the correct procedure for downloading the kernel source.
> 
> Peter Ison
> 
> 
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