On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:25:24PM -0700, Gerald wrote:
I find it interesting that a yum update always grabs the newest kernel regardless of repository or kernel type. e.g. if i run the unsupported hugemem kernel and a newer one comes out that is supported hugemem, it'll install that even though it's not the unsupported kernel. I've
You can use the "protectbase" plugin to change this first behavior.
also seen it install the regular smp kernel and not the hugemem one because the regular smp kernel was newer. It seems to only care about
Change DEFAULTKERNEL in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to be kernel-hugemem instead of kernel-smp.
Yum itself will upgrade whatever is installed -- it won't switch between actually _installing_ hugemem and smp unless one is marked as obsoleting the other.
what kernel is newest and doesn't take context into consideration.
Yes; yum is not designed to take "context" into consideration.