On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:40 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:21 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > > Anthony Messina wrote: > > > > -pmr > > >> > > > 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. > > > > New kernels will mostly work for most; many had problems with FC3 > > kernels and USB. New hardware (mobos, SCSI, yoy name it) is likely to > > give grief. People who must build their own wireless or infernal modem > > drivers are adversely affected. I rebuild to include NTFS so I need the > > source, not the binaries while others download the NTFS binaries. > > > NTFS is a kernel module. Even if you compile it yourself, the only > thing needed for the kernel are the kernel and kernel-devel packages. > Kernel source is not needed for that (unless you compile it into the > kernel). ---- completely ignoring the fact that there are much easier ways to do this... http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs Craig
