Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (257 mails)

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Quoting Mathias Homann <admin@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Am Mittwoch, 25. August 2004 17:39 schrieb Mike Rose:
> > When using:
> > rpm -ivh kernel-whatever.rpm
>
> but obviously thats not the way YOU installs a kernel update.
>

I believe the difference lies in:

rpm -ivh kernel-foo.i586.rpm

and

rpm -Uvh kernel-foo.i586.rpm

YaST/YOU/fou4s all use the "upgrade" path.  The "install" path moves the old
kernel to "previous", unless I'm mistaken.

Perhaps this is a perfect thing for the SuSE guys to change in YaST/YOU: Make
kernel upgrade use the "install" type path, or perhaps find some way to give
the option?  Maybe just make a note about it in the install patch messages to
give the user an informed option to quit out of YOU and type it in manually?

The "install" path is great for the vast majority of systems today, but can
cause problems on smaller systems, as our wonderful linux kernel weighs in at
nearly 65 megabytes, and the corresponding sources at 243mb.  My laptop
wouldn't like to keep too many copies of that size lying about...