even better, it should display the kernel, and if it is ticked, it should download the RPM and popup a message with instructions on what to do,, (ie not install it... just save it somewhere like /var/cache/grpmi) The kernel needs to show up there because many would not know to install the new kernel for security reasons if it didn't show up. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Sent: Monday, 10 September 2001 9:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade Couldn't MandrakeUpdate simply be modified to NOT display kernels? Prevent the problem from showing up at all in the app and confusing people: "Well, the kernel was there in the MandrakeUpdate window so I updated it. Why did it show up in the window if you are not supposed to update it this way?" On Monday 10 September 2001 07:39 am, you wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2001 07:42 pm, David Guntner escribi�: > > Brian Schroeder grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > Maybe: Could the folks at Mandrake modify the MandrakeUpdate > > > program to print out some wise words of advise, instead of doing > > > what is asked, whenever someone tries to upgrade the kernel? > > > > THAT would be an extremely helpful thing for them to do. Judging > > from the reactions that I've seen here, I'm obviously not the first > > person to get bitten by this problem. > > If you search the cooker ML archive, they were discussing this just > a week ago. I don't remember if any consensus was reached.
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