Brent L. Bates wrote:
I made the mistake of updating a kernel once instead ofinstalling it. If one upgrades a kernel and there is a problem, one can't easily go back to the old one. If one installs a new one, then one can quickly and easily go back to the old one as you have BOTH kernels available. A quick reboot and one can select the working kernel. I always install kernels now instead of updating them.
I understand the need to install rather than update kernels. Yum does this automatically for kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, and kernel-unsupported.
Wait...I had the files backwards. The NEW version of the yum.conf has the installonly line I was wondering about. I thought it was something that I might have done previously, but apparently it's a new default setting in the yum package. In that case, I'll just use the new one.
Sorry for the confusion.