On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 21:03 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote: > Hi! > > Using yum on RH ES/AS 3.0 with great success, it really rocks! > > The only problem, running yum during kickstart, installs a bunch of > kernels and I'd prefer if yum would use "rpm -F kernel-package" instead > of "rpm -i ...". > > 'man yum.conf' shows this option, I'd like to disable: > > installonlypkgs > list of packages that should only ever be installed, never > updated - kernels in particular fall into this category. > Defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enter-prise, > kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported. > > Removing the older kernel packages from the install server isn't a good > option. > > Thx for reading and keep the great work! You _REALLY_ don't want yum to update kernels. You _REALLY_ want it to install them. I know you _think_ you might want it to update kernels but trust me, you _REALLY_ don't. It's a fast track to an unbootable system. -sv
