On Jul 29, 2005, Mike Klinke <lsomike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 29 July 2005 17:14, Dave Jones wrote: >> I thought up2date special cased the kernel so that it always >> installs rather than updates ? >> >> Though, it's been quite a while since I've used it too.. > If so, then disregard what I said as I'm just out-of-date. At one > time ( when I was last using it ) you had to be careful or you'd > loose the old kernels. It's configurable. If you have kernel* listed as install-only (the default), then it will install even if you ask for an update. If you change that such that kernel packages no longer match, then you'll get them updated. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
