yum question - install or upgrade

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 24 21:35:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 01:02 +0800, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I install new kernel to use yum
> 
> Which command should I use
> 
> yum install kernel
> or 
> yum upgrade kernel
> 
> I want to keep the old kernel
> 
> thank you
> 
It does e not really matter. Yum update would be better. The number of
kernels kept is controlled by the : installonly_limit=8
line in /etc/yum.conf
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