On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 03:57 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > I have been using "rpm -qa|grep kernel" and "rpm -e $kernel" for a while > but I wonder if yum can be configured to treat kernels as normal > packages, e.g. "installonlypkgs=" in yum.conf (which does not work). I believe this is actually hard-coded in yum. One of the consequences of allowing a kernel to be upgraded instead of installed would be that the currently-running kernel plus all of its modules would be deleted when the new kernel was added. So any operation that needed to load a module (e.g. starting ppp if the ppp modules weren't already loaded) would fail. There might be more significant issues too (has anyone tried removing their currently-running kernel to see what happens? not something I intend to try!). Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
