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*SOLVED* kernal update from distro [message #13474]

Mon, 28 May 2007 04:13

monster
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Registered: May 2007

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Hi,

I had installed OpenVZ on a Centos 5. I had notice that a new kernel is available for CentOS 5 via yum.

Installing:
kernel i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 updates 12 M
kernel-devel i686 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 updates 4.5 M

Can do allow this update?

uname -a
Linux openvz.domain.com 2.6.18-8.el5.028stab031.1 #1 SMP Sat Apr 28 00:38:07 MSD 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks

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Re: kernal update from distro [message #13476 is a reply to message #13474]

Mon, 28 May 2007 05:27

rickb
Messages: 368
Registered: October 2006

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you do not want/need to install this kernel. it is a non-openvz kernel, so all of the openvz functions will not work if you boot into it. I suppose you could install it, but ensure it is not the default kernel in grub.conf.

Rick

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Re: *SOLVED* kernal update from distro [message #13503 is a reply to message #13474]

Tue, 29 May 2007 00:46

kir
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Moscow, Russia

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To let yum know you do not want stock kernels, you can add the following line to the appropriate yum repository configs (/etc/yum.conf.d/*.repo files, find where [updates] repo is configured):

exclude=kernel kernel-smp

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Re: *SOLVED* kernal update from distro [message #13508 is a reply to message #13503]

Tue, 29 May 2007 05:05

rickb
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Registered: October 2006

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Hi Kir, I feel this modification will block yum openvz based kernel updates as well. I believe this is why the kernel images used to be called openvz-*kernel-* or something like this, but dag wieers made a strong case to change it to kernel-*

Now, the package is:
/028stab031.1/kernel-2.6.18-ovz028stab031.1.i686.rpm

I don't know if there is a way around this, we need a regex match on yum exclude directive.

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