On Wednesday 20 October 2004 14:39, William Hooper wrote: > Terry Polzin said: > > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 12:02, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> 'clobber' is ill-defined. > >> Do you mean that up2date uninstalls old kernels? that shouldn't be > >> happening. > > > > Yes, that's exactly what I mean > > > >> in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date: what does pkgsToInstallNotUpdate= line > >> read? > > > > The line is empty like it should be. > > [snip] > > Says who? Seems to me that if you want the kernel "installed" (-i) > instead of "updated" (-U) you would want at least "kernel" in that line. > Every default up2date config I've seen has that (though I haven't got a > chance to test FC3Test3). I've come to realize that I've fouled up my config file and since have fixed it. It appears that somehow I've applied reverse Microsoft logic to the issue when editing the file.