New kernel, should be the default

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Sat Oct 9 15:06:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 17:45, seth vidal wrote:
> > Whether to default to new kernel which can be unwanted in certain
> > situations or not is a policy question which doesn't belong to rpm
> > level. Doesn't belong to depsolvers either. All we really need is
> > something like /etc/sysconfig/kernel where you can put 
> > MAKEDEFAULT=yes|no
> > and make new-kernel-pkg honor that, eg:
> > 
> > --- new-kernel-pkg.orig	2004-10-09 16:35:56.000000000 +0300
> > +++ new-kernel-pkg	2004-10-09 16:43:37.403284208 +0300
> > @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
> >      grubby=/sbin/grubby
> >  fi
> >  
> > +[ -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ] && . /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> > +
> >  cfgGrub=""
> >  cfgLilo=""
> >  runLilo=""
> > @@ -87,6 +89,8 @@
> >  	return
> >      fi
> >      
> > +    [ "$MAKEDEFAULT" = "yes" ] && makedefault="--make-default"
> > +    
> >      INITRD=""
> >      if [ -f $initrdfile ]; then
> >  	[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "found $initrdfile and using it with grubby"
> 
> I'd agree here. This is one of the reasons why I've been trying to get
> that code out of yum and into user editable modules.

Yup. Don't put the code back, lets get this fixed where it belongs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135161

	- Panu -





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