CentOS - Dec 2007 - Prevent kernel upgrade unless given dependencies satisfied

Dear List Members,
 
Is there a way to prevent a kernel from being upgraded unless
a list of given dependencies are satisfied?
 
What I am getting at is sometimes updated kernels are available
before the upgraded versions of the kernel modules in 'extras'
are (ie drbd).
 
If there were a way to list these modules as dependencies that
must be satisfied before a kernel upgrade can be performed it
would prevent a lot of pain around upgrade management.
 
 
Thanks,
 

Ross S. W. Walker
Information Systems Manager
Medallion Financial, Corp.
437 Madison Avenue
38th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel: (212) 328-2165
Fax: (212) 328-2125
WWW: http://www.medallion.com <http://www.medallion.com/>  

 

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On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 13:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker
wrote:
> Dear List Members,
>  
> Is there a way to prevent a kernel from being upgraded unless
> a list of given dependencies are satisfied?
>  
> What I am getting at is sometimes updated kernels are available
> before the upgraded versions of the kernel modules in 'extras'
> are (ie drbd).
>  
> If there were a way to list these modules as dependencies that
> must be satisfied before a kernel upgrade can be performed it
> would prevent a lot of pain around upgrade management.
>  
Yes : when you have production machine using such modules (sitting in
the extras repository, or third-party), i advice you to exclude the
kernel (exclude=) in your yum config ... i *always* update manually such
things, especially when dealing with sensitive data that needs to be
replicated through DRBD ...

My two cents ..

-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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