Should kernels be upgraded or installed.

[seth vidal]

> If the general consensus is that the installer is correct, then we
> should be consistent about it -- we should change up2date and yum to
> upgrade rather than install kernel packages too.

you can disable the 'always install' behavior of yum via the config.

simply set:
installonlypkgs=

in your yum.conf

it will zero out the internal list.

I would not advise it.

-sv