[TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm

John Berninger johnw at berningeronline.net
Fri Apr 22 17:22:31 EDT 2005


On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> Why is that?  Does that mean it's bad to let up2date update the kernel?
        No - up2date will special case to a "-i".  What would be the bad
idea would be "let rpm -U install a new kernel and them remove the
on-disk version of the one your running."  Not recommended for daily
consumption.


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