RH7 - quick look the other way!

[mbrodeur at nexttime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

   Documentation?  I guess that might work. ;)

   The problem is, if you go ahead and select the kernel packages in
up2date's "You've told me to skip these. Do you want to update them
anyway?" screen, it uses the upgrade method.  This is tempting to a user
who sees it and thinks, "I'm supposed to keep the kernel up to date,
right?"  Hopefully those who didn't know what they were doing (or how to
fix what they break) _would_ be reading the manual.


-- 
     -Matt

Silver's law: If Murphy's law can go wrong it will.


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:
>
> > > After fiddling for about an hour trying to repair the failed kernel update,
> >
> >    I'm going to second what Thorin said.  More times than I'd like to
> > admit I've updated a kernel with RPM and forgotten to re-install lilo.
> > IIRC, RPM is nice enough to blow away your old kernel in the update
> > process, so if the new one is broken there's no easy way to make it work.
> >    Also, don't forget about the RAM disk, if your system needs it.
>
> This is a common point I see people make. FYI, It is well documented on
> RedHat's web site and IIRC also in the manuals they ship with all of their
> distributions that you should NOT use the upgrade option when upgrading
> kernel RPMs.  IIRC, the correct command line to install a new kernel is:
>
>   rpm -ivh --force kernel-bla-blah.rpm
>
> But if I'm mistaken (which is quite possible), a quick search of RH's
> website should turn up the right answer.

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