[Yum] Re: kernel upgrade not making new kernel grub default?

[Tsai Li Ming]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:56 -0700, Lars Damerow wrote:
> 
>>>From seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>, Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:53:13PM -0400:
>>
>>>ah ha.
>>>what ver of mkinitrd are you using?
>>
>>The rather ancient 3.5.22..
>>
> 
> 
> update to the one from fc3 then you can add a file in /etc/sysconfig/
> named 'kernel':
> that looks something like:
> # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
> # new kernels the default
> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
> 
> # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
> 
> 
> so, in short, yum's not doing this bit anymore, mkinitrd in the %post of
> the kernel install is.
> 
> -sv

Hi Seth,

 From which version onwards is yum no longer setting the default kernel 
for new updates?

Liming