yum and apt differences.

[David Rees]

On Fri, February 20, 2004 at 5:05 pm, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
>> I don't have a problem with yum installing the latest kernel as it does
>> not make the new kernel the default in the bootloader and does not
>> remove
>> the old kernel, either.  As far as making apt install kernels by
>> default,
>> I can't say I recommend it do it either way (so leave it be?).
>
> In cases where I've run it interactively, it *has* set the new kernel as
> default.

Hm, I just tried it on my Fedora Core 1 (yum-2.0.4-2) system, maybe it's
different for the yum being packaged for Fedora Legacy.

I'm using grub, and ran yum update which installed
kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl as the first entry in the grub.conf, but also
incremented the default so that my old kernel would still boot.

IMO, this is a sane way to handle the update, and if the yum being
packaged for Fedora Legacy doesn't behave the same way, it should be
changed to.

-Dave