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