{"id":3451,"date":"2014-01-15T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:56:21","slug":"installing-a-specific-kernel-related-package-without-upgrading-the-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/15\/installing-a-specific-kernel-related-package-without-upgrading-the-kernel\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a specific kernel related package without upgrading the kernel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you simply type &#8220;yum install package_name&#8221;, you will get the most recent version available in the package repository to which you are pointing.  If this is a kernel related package, you can inadvertently upgrade the kernel, which may be a problem if you did not have it scheduled in your test cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Installing a specific kernel related package without upgrading the kernel can be done by simply appending your current kernel version.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"text\">\r\n[root@cmhldecupodb01 ~]# yum install kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64\r\nLoaded plugins: rhnplugin, security\r\nThis system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.\r\nSetting up Install Process\r\nResolving Dependencies\r\n--> Running transaction check\r\n---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-279.19.1.el6 will be installed\r\n--> Finished Dependency Resolution\r\n\r\nDependencies Resolved\r\n\r\n========================================================================================================================================================================\r\n Package                               Arch                            Version                                      Repository                                     Size\r\n========================================================================================================================================================================\r\nInstalling:\r\n kernel-devel                          x86_64                          2.6.32-279.19.1.el6                          rhel-x86_64-server-6                          7.7 M\r\n\r\nTransaction Summary\r\n========================================================================================================================================================================\r\nInstall       1 Package(s)\r\n\r\nTotal download size: 7.7 M\r\nInstalled size: 0\r\nIs this ok [y\/N]: y\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Simple, but sometimes easily overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you simply type &#8220;yum install package_name&#8221;, you will get the most recent version available in the package repository to which you are pointing. If this is a kernel related package, you can inadvertently upgrade the kernel, which may be&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/15\/installing-a-specific-kernel-related-package-without-upgrading-the-kernel\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}