On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 22:52 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > We are working out the last remaining technical issue with yum-2.4 on > > CentOS-3 (that we have found thus far), which is that yum-2.0 (and > > up2date in C3) sets newly installed kernels to be the default. In EL4, > > that is handled by the OS script "/sbin/new-kernel-pkg" (provided by > > mkinitrd), however in EL3 that functionality was done instead by > > up2date / yum. We won't modify how mkinitrd works on CentOS-3 (that is > > a very important core package and we don't change that kind of > > functionality from upstream), thus the only ohter option is to modify > > yum to do it. > > That should be doable from a plugin, without touching yum itself. This was initially implemented as a plugin. But we decided to integrate this into yum, following the principle of least surprise. E.g. on machines with a modified yum configuration (where plugins are not enabled), a plugin would modify behavior from what it was previously. -- Daniel