yum wants to remove my kernels, why?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>On Monday 16 January 2006 16:12, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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>>>but in my view the default should be to keep the current, working kernel
>>>as the default (as I believe it used to be).
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>>This makes for a very poor default for systems managed by novice fedora
>>users. Novice users may not realize that they need to reconfigure their
>>grub to take advantage of a security update kernel. Its very important that
>>the default configuration is one that makes booting into security
>>kernel updates as automatic as possible. For people with enough
>>experience using Fedora to competently manage multiple remote systems,
>>the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/kernel can be used to disable
>>this default.
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>I still think it is a bad idea to install the new kernel automatically.
>The worst thing that can happen for a newbie
>is that he turns on his laptop and it doesn't work
>
New kernels should never result in major regressions. We need to work on 
that instead of providing workarounds. What users can do is help 
checking updates-testing repository and making sure that it works. More 
feedback would definitely help increase the robustness of updates.


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Rahul 

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