unwanted kernel

unwanted kernel

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

As instructed in the Fedora 7 installation guide, I inserted the line

exclude kernel=* kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp*debuginfo*

in my yum.conf file.  (It's not on one line in this message on my screen, but it is in the file.  Anyway, when I do

yum update

it promises to install

kernel                  i686       2.6.22-133.fc7  updates            16 M

again, all on one line.

I'm appending the text of my yum.conf in case I did something wrong here, but the line looks to me just like in the installation guide.

I actually seem to have installed this other kernel doing

yum update -y

on Friday:  there were new lines in my grub.conf.  Luckily, I rebooted without a problem, and eventually removed the thing.  Still, I thought the exclude line was meant to prevent just this problem.  Any suggestions?

Thanks

Al

text of yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
exclude kernel=* kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp*debuginfo*

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
\x1a

Re: unwanted kernel

[Janina Sajka]

Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> As instructed in the Fedora 7 installation guide, I inserted the line
> 
> exclude kernel=* kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp*debuginfo*

You got it a little mixed up. It should be:

exclude=kernel*

Which is actually all you need. Another fix for the HOWTO! <sigh>

Janina

Re: unwanted kernel

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Actually, I'm sorry to say that exclude=kernel* gave me the same thing.  That's what I used the other day, and I just retried it.  Bummer.

Al
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: unwanted kernel


> Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > As instructed in the Fedora 7 installation guide, I inserted the line
> > 
> > exclude kernel=* kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp*debuginfo*
> 
> You got it a little mixed up. It should be:
> 
> exclude=kernel*
> 
> Which is actually all you need. Another fix for the HOWTO! <sigh>
> 
> Janina
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Re: unwanted kernel

[Janina Sajka]

No, it's the correct syntax that several of us who used for a long time.
So, please take the time to figure out what's going wrong for you.

exclude=kernel*

goes on its own line in /etc/yum.conf

Here's a complete /etc/yum.conf file from one of my machines:

keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
exclude=kernel* zaptel* libpri*

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> Actually, I'm sorry to say that exclude=kernel* gave me the same thing.  That's what I used the other day, and I just retried it.  Bummer.

Re: unwanted kernel

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

> No, it's the correct syntax that several of us who used for a long time.
> So, please take the time to figure out what's going wrong for you.

Well, as I implied in a follow-up message, I seemed to have missing brain syndrome.  It actually took somebody using the word typo to bring it back.  I did finally get it, though.

Al



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: unwanted kernel


> No, it's the correct syntax that several of us who used for a long time.
> So, please take the time to figure out what's going wrong for you.
> 
> exclude=kernel*
> 
> goes on its own line in /etc/yum.conf
> 
> Here's a complete /etc/yum.conf file from one of my machines:
> 
> keepcache=0
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> plugins=1
> metadata_expire=1800
> exclude=kernel* zaptel* libpri*
> 
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> Albert E. Sten-Clanton writes:
> > Actually, I'm sorry to say that exclude=kernel* gave me the same thing.  That's what I used the other day, and I just retried it.  Bummer.
> 
> 
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