On 9/3/2010 3:47 PM, Todd Denniston wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote, On 09/03/2010 04:10 PM:
On Friday, September 03, 2010 18:34:51 Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:17:37PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Does anyone know if this is special-cased or some config setting? I
It's special-cased.
So all in all, you should never be afraid that yum will leave you only with untested kernels while updating.
Thank you for your description of what is supposed to happen, I was not aware of this safety provision previously.
I will however probably pick a test machine and try it, just to have that reassuring feeling of having seen it in action myself, as so far I have only come to that point where the NEXT update would be the one which got me. :)
Just try booting your oldest existing kernel from the grub menu before doing an update that includes a kernel, and note that the one you are running isn't removed like it would be otherwise.