arch fun.

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Feb 6 18:41:41 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> > Yes -- all that have kernel.i686 installed now would get the new  
> > kernel.i686 later (the one with PAE). But the latter will not boot on  
> > all machines where the curret kernel.i686 works. If there is no  
> > kernel.i686 (because it is named kernel-PAE.i686), then yum/anaconda  
> > will automatically install kernel.i586, which is what should happen to  
> > make sure all system still boot after updating.
> >
> > But maybe some yum/anaconda plugin/magic could automatically select the  
> > best kernel on update. Not sure, but something like that might be needed  
> > for Live-CD-Installs anyway
> 
> We could invent a new rpm arch. This may not be practical, though.

x86_pae would be good.




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