[SATLUG] Yum considered harmful for compiling your own software?

[Jeremy Mann]

Sean, I haven't used YUM in awhile, but I would think you could edit
the yum config files and remove the lines dealing with updates,
security and whatever else EL5 adds and leave base or os, I can't
remember which. This should only pull down the stock or 'base' system
files.


On 11/2/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can't yum figure out that I want kernel-headers and kernel-devel
> for my *currently running* kernel, and not the latest kernel?
>
> [root at vmhost3 ~]# rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.18-8.el5
>
> [root at vmhost3 ~]# rpm -q kernel-headers
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
>
> [root at vmhost3 ~]# rpm -q kernel-devel
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
>
> This is one of the most frustrating aspects of YUM, IMHO.  We have a
> very good reason for wanting to stick with the 2.6.18-8 kernel, yet
> yum likes to download the latest version of kernel-headers and
> kernel-devel, which are completely useless to me.  Is there some way
> to force yum to behave and actually install the supporting files for
> my current kernel???
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