[Novalug] Update kernel package

Walt Smith waltechmail@yahoo.com
Wed Mar 19 13:52:33 EDT 2014


to OP,

If you use rpm to install,
and don't know if you have all the dependent files
the install will abort with nothing being done,
except --- It will display what is missing.

This is a good thing.

Often for the kernel, as mentioned, the kernel-firmware
is required.  Often but not always, you MAY also need
kernel-docs and/or kernel-headers, and possibly kernel-dev
( but only if you installed some of the development stuff )..


As one user mentioend rpm -i ( for install )
is different than -U because it ( -i) will not remove
the previous kernel files. After installing, at boot you
may use the boot menu to select which kernel version 
to boot with.   Not a bad thing.


Walt.........

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Tony Jones wrote:

> My question for this list is has anyone done this successfully - that is
> downloading and installing the individual kernel rpm and it's dependencies?.
> I know to install a new kernel you would use the rpm -ivh command instead of
> rpm -Uvh  upgrading to the latest one.  I can see doing this as being a
> disaster.  I may just copy all of the updates for Red Hat version 6.2 from
> the Red Hat Network to my server and then burn/copy all of the
> x86_64 rpm's to a DVD, create a repository, mount the DVD and perform a yum
> update to automatically install the kernel and the dependencies.  Would this
> be a good way to do this for updating Red Hat servers that aren't connected
> to the Internet?  Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Kernel packages generally do not have any dependencies.  You should be able to do exactly what you are trying to do, just install the latest kernel RPM, but definitely use "rpm -i" so that you keep the old kernel around in case you want to go back to it.

You might also want to upgrade the kernel-headers package.
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