Gene Heskett wrote:
Robert Locke wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 07:50 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
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So my question then is: Can yum be told to dl and install the new
kernels but leave grub.conf alone, and not remove the older kernel?
I don't believe this is yum doing this. I believe it is the post script
inside the rpm package that is updating grub.conf.... So even if you
were to manually download the kernel package and use rpm -i to install
it, it would still update grub.conf.....
--Rob
Yuk... Ok, can I have yum dl, but not install (kernels only),
You can't, but you can approximate it by excluding kernel packages in
yum.conf and manually downloading them using yumdownloader from the
yum-utils package?
> and I'll use mc to unpack & move the files?
Why on earth would you want to do that rather than just do:
# rpm -ivh --noscripts kernel-....rpm ?
I still find it much easier to let yum do it all, edit grub.conf, make a
new initrd, remove old kernels etc. personally.
Paul.
