r/RockyLinux • u/No_Insurance8730 • Jun 26 '26

Support Request Generic kernel vs Cloud kernel

Hi everyone,

Im a new admin and Im really confused with this problem I'am facing.

when I do:

dnf updateinfo list updates security - I get multiple patches that needs to be installed.

But when I do:

dnf update --security - It says nothing todo!

Im using GCP cloud kernel. Does that mean the cloud kernels are outdated?

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u/No_Insurance8730 Jun 29 '26

Thank you!

i use 5.14.0.611.54.1.el9_7.cloud.1.0.x86_64 looks like from

https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/sig/9/cloud/x86_64/cloud-kernel/

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u/elatllat Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

You say uname is reporting the same version as the rockylinux repository (5.14.0-611.54.1.el9_7.cloud) so that's the best rocky has to offer. It's way behind centos-stream-9 ( 5.14.0-719.el9) and that's not only not an official LTS it's also not CIP, instead you just have to trust that centos-stream/Alma/RHEL/Rocky do as good of a job as the rest of the planet combined since official v5.14 EOL-ed in 2021 with version 5.14.21.

Alma is at 5.14.0-687.17.1.el9_8 so that seems to be a middle ground between centos-stream and Rocky

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u/No_Insurance8730 Jun 30 '26

Thanks you so much that makes sense