On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 15:21, John Summerfied wrote: > > yum has a service for nightly update in fc4 (and maybe others). why > > don't you edit the associated scripts to only download the packages, not > > install them? that would be the identical behavior that ms allows, or > > you could choose to have them automatically applied by just enabling the > > current service. as another writer mentioned, you kernel is never > > updated per se. the new one is just installed and /etc/grub.conf is > > changed to boot into the new one, but your old kernel stays safe and sound. > > Making the new one bootable is certain to create a system that will not > boot, shutdown or fail in some other way without manual intervention. It > happened several times during the life of FC3 to my certain knowledge, I > believe it happened to many with FC4 and it almost certainly will happen > during the life of FC5. > > Installing new kernels is fine. Automatically making them bootable is > not, and that's not taking into account those who wish to boot something > altogether different, such as Windows, FreeBSD or Another Distro. It's really only an issue for machines at a remote location where you can't easily pick a working kernel at the grub prompt. And fedora probably isn't the best choice for machines where an occasional surprise causes a real problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
