yum-2.0.7-6.SL.noarch.rpm This yum has a different installation algorithum than the yum that was used as the final release. This version of yum basically allows you to have "sloppy kernels". This means that if you have a kernel, with corresponding kernel-module rpm's. You could upgrade that kernel even though you didn't have the corresponding kernel-module for that new kernel. The drawback to "sloppy kernels" is that you can accidentally not have a critical functionality in your new kernel. An example of that would be if you have xfs as your main file system, and upgrade your kernel, without the xfs kernel-module. If you then reboot into that kernel, all would be lost.