The latest kernel is not installed when upgrading the system

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Issue

After upgrading the system to the latest minorrelease using the command below, the latest kernel was not installed.

# yum update redhat-release

Before:

# cat /etc/redhat-release                                                                                                                                                    
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo) 
# rpm -q kernel                                                                                                                                                              
kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                  

After:

# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
# rpm -q kernel
kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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