Re: Up2date Puzzle

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David Cartwright wrote:

> Greetings,
> 	From the beginning (initial install of RH-9) "up2date has shown  me a
> "Packages Flagged to be Skipped" page: It states " According to your
> preferences you have chosen not to automatically update (kernel,version
> 2.4.20, rel. 20.9, arch athlon, size 13535, reason skipped pkg
> name/pattern)" and proceeds to give me the option of installing the
> update anyway. I do not remember any part of the installation process
> where I might have chosen this 'no update' option but I probably did.It
> also appears the RH up2date red flag on my desktop is not going to go
> away until I choose to install the kernel upgrade which I hesitate to do
> until I am reasonably sure I am screwing up. My questions are: (1) Am I
> responsible for this or is this redhat's way of making me think twice
> before doing something stupid like overwriting my kernel? (2) What are
> the pros and cons of installing the kernel upgrade?
>
> Regards,
> David Cartwright  
>
>
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I believe RH9 has the kernel upgrade packages flagged to be skipped in 
Up2date by default, I never told it to do that and it's done it since I 
installed.

When you install the new kernel by Up2date, it doesn't delete the old 
kernel, but adds an option to the grub menu, so everytime you boot, it 
asks which kernel you want to boot linux with, the old or new one. So 
even if all goes horribly wrong and the new one pears up, you can still 
fall back to the old kernel.

Obviously, once you've been running it a while and you're statisfied 
that the new kernel is working 100% to your requirements, you can choose 
to remove the old kernel entry from the grub menu, and even delete it if 
you want to save space.

Many things are usually added/improved, but of course there is always 
the potential for things that did work to break. All part of the 
excitement of a kernel upgrade :-)

Stu C.