On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Hello list. > > I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an > UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's > strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new > kernel. > > Opinions ? > > Kaj Haulrich. > =========================================== > Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 > Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org > Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. > ===========================================
Hello Kaj; I can't remember if urpmi was written to update kernels or install them, even though the /etc/urpmi/skip.list has the kernel written into it. Among other things. I do know that I always play safe; download the kernel and the kernel source rpms then in a super user terminal I do without the "": "rpm -ivh <kernel-version>.rpm" instead of the upgrade "Uvh", then; "rpm -ivh <kernel-source-version>.rpm" and; "/sbin/lilo -v" to add the new kernel. If something goes kerflooey (a technical term I'm intimately familiar with <g>) you'll still have a working kernel to work with. Just seems safer that way. But then I hate reinstalls when I screw up. That happens often too. <g> Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. -- Ambrose Bierce
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