up2date defaults to skipping kernel updates

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:43, jeem machine wrote:
> Just go to /boot/grub.conf and change default to 0
> Then it will always boot with the last kernel installed
> Jeem
> 

Ummmm, careful on how you say that....

While rpm -i will place the "new kernel" as the first stanza in
grub.conf, it also shifts the default= line to continue to point to
whichever kernel was being booted by default before.

It is only through a post-installation function in yum or "perhaps no
longer" in up2date that it will make the new kernel the default one. 
The problem in this thread is discussing the merits "or not" of this
post-installation routine "automatically" pointing to the new kernel. 
It appears, at the moment, that kernel updates via up2date are now
requiring us to manually edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and make the
edit you are suggesting, but that needs to be done following each kernel
update.  Currently, yum is making the change automatically.

--Rob