Tomas,

You can always pull the RPM from the 6.3 site and try to  install it by 
  hand with rpm -i.  You may find it has dependencies to chase, but
usually a tool for a kernel facility like that doesn't have many.

On 12/12/2012 07:08 AM, Tomas Macek wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, David Sommerseth wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/12 10:29, Tomas Macek wrote:
>>> Hello, I don't know where exactly should I ask for this, but this list
>>> seems to be suitable for it.
>>>
>>> We found out, that ipset kernel module is included in SL kernels since
>>> 2012-06-12 from version 2.6.32-168 and the utilities are available in
>>> 'sl' repo in 6.3 but not in older 6.x versions.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to include the ipset package into all the SL 6.0+
>>> distributions the same way is it is in 6.3? Or where should I place my
>>> with?
>>
>> It seems ipset was first enabled in RHEL 6.2, so I wouldn't expect SL to
>> change from that regime.
>>
>> <https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.2_Release_Notes/index.html>
>>
>>
>> Even though the kernel support may have been available at an earlier
>> release point, it might just as well have been a tech-preview of that
>> feature - which are not officially supported by TUV.
>>
>> So I'd rather recommend you to upgrade your installations. When it is
>> fully available, as in 6.2, it is first at that point really considered
>> ready for production.
>>
>
> The server is too important to be upgraded/reinstalled online. When
> upgrade will be needed, it will be directly replaced by another machine
> - no software upgrade. It's much more simple to just upgrade the kernel
> and install ipset package than to upgrade whole machine from one distro
> verion to another. This is why I would really appreciate the ipset
> package for older distro versions.
>
> Regards, Tomas