Topic: SME Kernel lagging Upstream CentOS

[apmuthu]

CentOS:
kernel-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5.i686.rpm

but in SME:

Base: kernel-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
and
Updates: kernel-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5.i686.rpm

[idp_qbn]

apmuthu,

It must be a problem with your system.
My systems report they are using kernel-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5

Do a

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yum clean alland then

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yum updateand see if it fixes things.

Cheers
Ian

[apmuthu]

system updates correctly from the CentOS Repo. The kernel stored in the SME8 repo is old.

[_alex]

I don't think so.

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=== yum reports available updates:
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bash.i386                           3.2-32.el5_9.1                       updates
kernel.i686                         2.6.18-348.12.1.el5                  updates
kernel-devel.i686                   2.6.18-348.12.1.el5                  updates
kernel-headers.i386                 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5                  updates


[wellsi]

New kernel was released yesterday, kernel-2.6.18-348.12.1.el5.i686.rpm, the release notes were sent to updatesannounce@contribs.org which everyone should subscribe to if interested in knowing which updates are being made available.

The kernel has broken SME Server in the past so it is excluded by yum until in our sme repo

If you notice it being out-of-date you can raise a bug, or volunteer to test it and report if it works/breaks. That speeds up the release.

[apmuthu]

If that were the case, then the kernel update from the CentOS repo should not have been allowed by default.
Anyway, so far, no untoward errors have been noticed in a fresh SME8 install with SAIL v4.0-58 along with it's fixes, fully yummed uptodate.
Considering the number of changes in v8.0 that have been available, it would be nice to have a fresh v8.1 ISO rolled out with a script to update an existing ISO as well.

[wellsi]

My comment was wrong, for SME 8 the kernel updates are no longer excluded as they were for SME 7.
In SME 8 the yum exclude is only
exclude=initscripts libgsf

More help on the verifications, http://wiki.contribs.org/Verification_Queue , will still help get updates out quicker.

As for 8.1 that is being worked on and a test ISO will be released as soon as we can make it. Progress is in http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7675
For SME 8.0 zsync & jigdo files were available as alternatives to downloading the full ISO. I will try to provide these as well for 8.1