The worst part of this is that we deny the newbie the stability and security supposedly promised by the switch to Linux. (Of course, I'm speaking of updates to the release versions, not Cooker.)
Fran�ois Pons wrote: > > Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Friday 12 October 2001 11:15, I was honored with this communique: > > > > Actually, rpmdrake should correctly execute pre-/postinstall scripts. > > > > Disabling kernel update is a poor man workaround :-( > > > > > > This is really true ? This is surprising since this is "rpm" task to > > > execute these scripts. > > > > Yes, rpmdrake *should* do these things correctly, but it has a history of > > *not* doing these things correctly all of the time - I still never use it to > > do the actual work, I use it only as a reference tool, preferring to do the > > updates manually. I kind of miss having it remind me of kernel updates, but > > if it helps keep newbies from trashing their kernels, I can live with the > > minor inconvenience. > > This is not a problem of rpmdrake as it uses urpmi for that, urpmi provides > possibility to never update package chosen by the user (but not to install them > instead of skipping them). See /etc/urpmi/skip.list. > > Fran�ois.
