Re: I volunteer

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

seth vidal (skvidal phy duke edu) said: 
> the biggest problem to work around has todo with kernel updates and
> openafs version updates.
> 
> the openafs kernel modules are built to a specific kernel version and
> therefore must be install-only -not hard.

Current up2date will do the install-not-upgrade dance for any
package that 'Provides: kernel-modules' - I'm guessing similar
capabilities could be added to apt and yum fairly quickly, and
such packages ported to provide that...

Bill