yum update

[Chris Jones]

> Having once experienced precisely what Karl describes above, I'd say you're 
> wrong. I did spot what it was proposing to do as I always read the proposed 
> changes before accepting them. It was a while ago in FC6, and there was a 
> period of some days where yum was doing some strange things, and as I recall, 
> I ended up removing yum and reinstalling it and doing some 'clean all's (not 
> necessarily in that sequence) before it was fixed. I don't know what caused 
> this behavior, and I'm sure it's not supposed to ever happen, since it would 
> be insane, but, some combination of things I'd done, or bugs, or corruption 
> in the database, did cause the anomalous behavior -- which is one reason I 
> never run automatic yum updates...never say *never*

OK, maybe saying *never* was asking for trouble ;)

Better then, AFAIK yum is never supposed to remove the currently running 
kernel...

I also never let my Fedora systems update themselves, given the nature 
of Fedora I prefer to review the updates. The few times I've needed to 
pin myself to an older kernel version, due to problems with newer ones, 
yum has never mis-behaved and tried to remove the one I was running...

Chris