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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>