Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> In light of the fact that it seems unrealistic to ask people to read
> advisories prior to installation, I'm going to ask the rpmdrake
> maintainer to have rpmdrake automatically reject any attempts to
> install a kernel using it. Or, at the very least, have a
> configuration switch that defaults to NO that suicidal users who wish
> to force rpmdrake to do it can switch to YES manually knowing full
> well the repercussions of doing so.
>
And rpm -U? (Well, you may say if user knows how to use rpm commands het
gets what he deserves :-)
Why not simply make kernel RPM to reject update mode in preinstall
script? E.g. MAKEDEV package does it if devfs is mounted; kernel RPM
could check special variable (sensibly in /etc/sysconfig/installkernel)
and reject update unless you have KERNEL_UPDATE=yes there.
-andrej
