[rhn-users] Preventing RHEL5 kernel removals on yum updates

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On 5/17/07, Caetano, Greg <Greg.Caetano at hp.com> wrote:
> With the recent kernel updates, I noticed the following output from my
> "yum update -y" command
>
> ========================================================================
> =====
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
> Size
> ========================================================================
> =====
> Installing:
>  kernel                  i686       2.6.18-8.1.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5
> 12 M
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.18-8.1.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5
> 4.5 M
> Updating:
>  ipsec-tools             i386       0.6.5-8.el5      rhel-i386-server-5
> 350 k
>  kernel-headers          i386       2.6.18-8.1.4.el5  rhel-i386-server-5
> 725 k
>  vixie-cron              i386       4:4.1-70.el5     rhel-i386-server-5
> 91 k
> Removing:
>  kernel                  i686       2.6.18-8.1.3.el5  installed
> 34 M
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.18-8.1.3.el5  installed
> 14 M
>
> How do we configure yum to not remove a previous kernel but just install
> the latest update so we
> Can fall back to the previous kernel if needed?

Take a look at /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf

John