Kernel with kernel-debug option

Mark Knoop mpknoop at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 11:23:53 UTC 2007


On 19/01/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:02 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > > "This update also introduces 'kernel-debug', a variant with
> > > additional debugging options enabled. These kernels may run
> > > with lower performance and increased memory overhead than
> > > the non-debug variants."
> > >
> > > My question is: is it possible to get this kernel without this
> > > kernel-debug option?
> >
> > I thought it was an *extra* kernel, that you'd install if you wanted to,
> > instead.  Like you had kernel, kernel-smp, and so on...
>
> Ah! OK, thanks, I misunderstood the message, so my next question is ,
> when I update to this kernel, which one will be used by default? the
> normal one or the kernel-debug version?

They are different packages:

$ yum list kernel\*
Available Packages
kernel.i686                              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel.i586                              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel-PAE-debug.i686                    2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel-PAE-debug-devel.i686              2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel-debug.i686                        2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel-debug-devel.i686                  2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates
kernel-devel.i686                        2.6.19-1.2895.fc6      updates

Just install the kernel package - this will be the default update.

-- 
Mark Knoop




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