jumpstarting yum on 7.2
Rick Johnson
rjohnson at medata.com
Sat Feb 21 00:46:42 UTC 2004
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 15:12, g wrote:
>
>>it does appear that the provided yum configuration, and the docs,
>>presume we don't want to update the kernel. i realize this is also
>>what the default up2date configuration was. even so, this is strange
>>thinking. the updated kernel is essential if we're talking about
>>security.
>
>
> Nobody is saying that you don't want to upgrade the kernel, however many
> people (like me) don't want our automatic update systems grabbing a new
> kernel w/out me knowing about it.
>
IMHO, there's nothing wrong w/ grabbing the new one as long as it's not
set as default. Is there a way to tell yum or rpm to install the kernel,
but not set as default? It isn't the behavior of RPM, so I have a
feeling yum is the culprit.
Personally, I let it grab and set as default since kernel's don't scare
me as long as I have the old to fall back to :-) I just choose my reboot
time carefully in case something does go wrong. That's why when we do it
manually, we ivh, not Uvh :-)
Now in the case of lights out management setups or remote locations,
setting as default Could Be Bad :-/
-Rick
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