[Yum] How to Change yum's Idea of the Kernel Version

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Apr 11 18:24:35 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:01:24PM -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
> > 1) If I install a kernel package does it not automatically make it bootable?
> >    Obviously, that would screw me over.
> 
> On FC3, look at /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Before that (which I assume you are,
> given the kernel version you're using), I don't think it gets set to default
> automatically.

not by the kernel package, no.



> > 3) How do I tell yum that I want to move from RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 (or something
> >    else)?  A 'yum update' will update all packages for this version, right?
> >    How does a 'yum upgrade' know to move to a new version?
> 
> It's simply based on what repository you're pointing at. If you point yum at
> a 7.3 repository, it'll try to upgrade to that. But I'm not sure I'd bother
> to upgrade to 7.3 at this point, since it's _also_ obsolete....

agreed.

-sv





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