Infrastructure Software

Recently while trying to debug a kernel problem in a separate thread here, I discovered I could not boot successfully from my two older Oracle Linux UEK kernels. It turned out to be caused by the yum update command updating the existing kernel-firmware packages instead leaving the old alone and installing the new one to match the new kernel. I had to change /etc/yum.conf to fix this. I added the following line, but I am not sure if my fix is complete.

installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-bigmem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-uek kernel-uek-firmware

It seems like my problem would impact anyone who is using the uek kernel and updating it via yum. Should this be reported as a bug?