yum losing it´s flavour?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:52, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>
>>> Can yum automatically defer updating the kernel until the
>>> in-use modules are also available in matching versions?
>>
>> That would be sweet. FYI, when yum updated the kernel, there was no
>> nvidia driver out, so it blew up. I use the hell outa graphics here and
>> whatever substitutes for the nvidia driver ain't up to the load. So, I
>> removed the new kernel, re-installed the older one, re-installed the
>> drivers, it burped once or twice and then settled in, while creating a
>> new ulcer. I've wasted the entire weekend on this and that bind thing.
>
> Yum shouldn't have removed the running kernel, so recovery
> should have been a matter of hitting a key during reboot,
> selecting the old kernel with the down-arrow key, and
> hitting enter.   Still, it would be nice if it didn't
> break the system in the first place when it should be
> moderately easy to detect that a new kernel isn't
> going to work yet.

How would the kernel RPM know?  It can't depend on the NVidia module.

You can set UPDATEDEFAULT in /etc/sysconfig/kernel---that gives you some
manual control.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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