Yum 2.0.7-2 allows for the new kernel-module naming convention. Where the kernel-module name is as follows |----------------NAME-----------------------|----version-----| kernel-module---.$arch.rpm So you can see from this new naming convention that yum would not have known that a new kernel-module-xxx would need to be installed as a implied dependency as it did not know about implied dependencies. As a example If we have this rpm installed with kernel-2.4.15-EL . kernel-module-openafs-2.4.15-EL-1.2.11-4.i386.rpm In we were to ask yum to update to kernel-2.4.15.0.2-EL yum would update to this new kernel not knowing that it should also update to kernel-module-openafs-2.4.15.0.2-EL-1.2.11-4.i386.rpm This new version of yum does understand this. It is too new of a change to put in the main tree so it is in here for now. It will move to the main tree after more testing. -Connie Sieh