[WBEL-users] Updates

[John Morris]

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:59, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> The new yum (2.1.x)  doesn't modify /boot/grub/menu.lst and set the new
> kernel to default when doing kernel upgrades ... (in the new FC and
> rhel4 kernels, that is done by I think mkinitrd ... or at least some
> other way ... so yum 2.1.x wasn't designed to do it).

I believe the kernel package itself calls installkernel to add itself to
grub and or lilo.  This way yum/up2date/apt, etc doesn't have to have
special features to deal with booting.

> I also can verify that up2date (even the latest RHEL4 one) still uses
> the old yum headers ... I have to use both createrepo and yum-arch for
> CentOS-4beta since we are using yum 2.1.x.

That is a major bummer.  That makes it a tough call as to which solution
to try since maintaining two sets of repo metadata is asking for trouble
but not having an easy way to update the mirror list is also bad.