Re: update to sepecific version package

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Carlos Hernandez wrote:

> On rhel 5.3 I want to update to kernel version "2.6.18-128.8.1.el5"
> due to a security patch.
>
> when performing:
>
> # yum check-update | grep kernel
> kernel.x86_64                            2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
> rhel-x86_64-server-5
> kernel-devel.x86_64                      2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
> rhel-x86_64-server-5
> kernel-headers.x86_64                    2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
> rhel-x86_64-server-5
>
> But 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 correspond to rhel 5.4, and I dont want to move
> to this version, I want to keep rhel 5.3.
>
> I tried :
>
> # yum update kernel-2.6.18-128.8.1
>
> But it seems to be the wrong way.
>
> How could I instruct yum to update the server to this specific kernel version?
>

try:
yum update kernel-2.6.18-128.8.1.el5


also - to make sure -128 is around run:

yum list available kernel

-sv

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