(Daft) CentOS yum question

[The Excession]

I'm trying to roll a couple of boxes forward to CentOS 5.2 or even 5.3

I need a newer kernel - current is 2.6.18-8.el5 - I want some of the better USB support that is supposedly present in 2.6.24+

However, I can't seem to get yum to point at the newer sources.

I know this should be simple, and even after repeated `yum update` I'm still getting nowhere.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
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[cottonfoo]

what about 'yum dist-upgrade'?

[The Excession]

Thakns fella!

cottonfoo said:

what about 'yum dist-upgrade'?

How does that work?

I tried

 yum dist-upgrade
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
usage: yum [options] COMMAND

List of Commands:

check-update   Check for available package updates
clean          Remove cached data
deplist        List a package's dependencies
erase          Remove a package or packages from your system
groupinfo      Display details about a package group
groupinstall   Install the packages in a group on your system
grouplist      List available package groups
groupremove    Remove the packages in a group from your system
help           Display a helpful usage message
info           Display details about a package or group of packages
install        Install a package or packages on your system
list           List a package or groups of packages
localinstall   Install a local RPM
makecache      Generate the metadata cache
provides       Find what package provides the given value
reinstall      reinstall a package
repolist       Display the configured software repositories
resolvedep     Determine which package provides the given dependency
search         Search package details for the given string
shell          Run an interactive yum shell
update         Update a package or packages on your system
upgrade        Update packages taking obsoletes into account

SNIPPED AS MAKE NO SENSE

[cottonfoo]

I thought yum supported dist-upgrade. Oh well.

Look at section 3.2.5 on here, http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/upgrading.html

[The Excession]

cottonfoo said:

I thought yum supported dist-upgrade. Oh well.

Look at section 3.2.5 on here, http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/upgrading.html

Thanks - I'll take a look.

[gamefreaks]

have you tried running:

yum clean-all

It will clear the update cache and force it to find and download a fresh set of updates.

We have an SME server (which is based on CentOS) and I have to run that sometimes to get it to update correctly.

[The Excession]

gamefreaks said:

have you tried running:

yum clean-all

It will clear the update cache and force it to find and download a fresh set of updates.

We have an SME server (which is based on CentOS) and I have to run that sometimes to get it to update correctly.

Thanks - I'll take a look.