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Subject:
openvz kernel conflicts with yum upgrade (SL6 wants to upgrade kernel from official repo)
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Stefan Eriksson <[log in to unmask]>
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Stefan Eriksson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:26:23 +0200
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I've installed openvz kernel 2.6.32 from openvz repo thus getting a new kernel 

active:

uname -r

2.6.32-042stab018.1



when installing the new it uninstalled the original firmware. But when I run 

yum upgrade I get these options:



Dependencies Resolved



===================================================

 Package                                                                  Arch                                                    

Version                                                                   

Repository                                                    Size

===================================================

Installing:

 kernel                                                                   

x86_64                                                  2.6.32-131.2.1.el6                                                        

sl-security                                                   23 M

Updating:

 bzip2                                                                    

x86_64                                                  1.0.5-7.el6_0                                                             

sl-security                                                   48 k

....



 tzdata                                                                   

noarch                                                  2011g-1.el6                                                               

sl-security                                                  444 k

Installing for dependencies:

 kernel-firmware                                                          

noarch                                                  2.6.32-131.2.1.el6                                                        

sl-security                                                  2.5 M





It wants to install the original kernel once again over my openvz. This 

basicly breaks the security upgrade. Does anyone know how to remove kernel 

from yum upgrade as I only want to upgrade my kernel from the openvz repo?



Thanks

Stefan

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