Where can I find the latest kernel patches, is there any repository maintained by centos.

Question

I installed CentOS 6.4 on a partition on my computer a few days ago, and I'm trying to equip it with the software i think i need.

For example, i need, or i think i need, a couple of gnustep programs for uploading images from my digital camera (the programs being openapp and Camera.app).

I imagine that these are old enough that they must surely exist in rpms somewhere.

But i apparently don't know how to google around sufficiently well to locate a repository that contains them, or even that contains packages that i know exist as rpms. For example: i'm certain that an rpm exists for
a package called gnustep-make, because its name popped up on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279655 But if i try 'sudo yum install gnustep-make' i get 'No package gnustep-make available.'
So that clearly means that i don't have enough repositories configured for use.

So, i'd be grateful for any pointers to a list of CentOS-compatible repositories that i can put in the yum configuration (/etc/yum.repos.d or elsewhere).

Answer 1

Try to st run "yum update" or "yum update kernel*". The latest released updates are always there. If there's a reason that yum doesn't work for you, you should post that so people can give you a more appropriate solution.

Comments

I am using centos 6.5 minimal version, some of the updates may not be relevant for my OS. So I need to verify and decide the patches and accordingly need to update my OS.  Is there any way for this?

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yum update will only update the packages installed on your system, so if  you've installed certain packages, then its presumed that any fixes/updates to those packages are relevant.

The descriptions of what the various updates fix are documented on redhat's update bulletins.