On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 11:03 -0400, Paul Pianta wrote: > Hey people, > > I am interested in knowing how yum manages to configure grub.conf after > an install of a kernel package. > > A manual rpm kernel installation (rpm -ivh) will place the new kernel at > the top of the grub.conf list but it will not change the 'default' > setting to boot from this new kernel. > > A yum update of a kernel package (which is actually an install) manages > to change the default setting to boot the new kernel. I like this > behaviour and was wondering if someone could tell me how it is done. > > I want to know because I would also like to change the default grub > entry title to a custom title and if I can hack yum to do it for me - it > would save a perl one-liner later on ... > > Anyone willing to enlighten me? if you'd like - look in pkgaction.py the function you're looking for is kernelupdate(). It shouldn't be too hard to follow. It ultimately relies on some code I lifted from up2date and modified a little bit. -sv
