Gene Heskett wrote:
High jacking a thread here... Thats one of the reasons I don't like yum
putzing with my grub.conf.
At home, I've been building the latest Linus or Greg KH kernels from
scratch, and I've found that there does not seem to be a maximum number
of entries in my grub.conf, so I only clean house when the /boot
partition is pretty well filled up, meaning there are probably 20+
entries in my grub.conf at any one time.
To me, editing grub.conf is a no-brainer, and it stays a heck of a lot
neater appearing than when yum does it.
However, I expect that for many newbies, editing a grub config file
would be an operation accompanied by great trepidation, lest it result
in an unbootable system.
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?
It's not yum that does this, it's the kernel package post-install
script. It would not be a good idea to turn off all scripts in yum as
that would break *lots* of things.
You can prevent removals of old kernels by disabling the installonlyn
yum plugin.
Paul.
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