On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:04:38PM +0200, David Huecking wrote:
Urgh, I'm running SuSE 8.1 on a "root-server" at an ISP where also a vanilla kernel runs. If the "new" automatic update from YOU will kick this kernel I (and many others like me) may run in trouble, because all needed features are linked staticly in this kernel... :-/ The ethernet-driver is also static. So I don't know what will happen, if YOU replaces it with the module-oriented SuSE-Kernel. ...yes I know: just don't select the kernel-packet, but I bet many people just use the automatic mode...
If you use an individual kernel, you should better install it under a different name. If you did so, an upgrade cannot hurt you. This problem is not kernel-specific. Everytime you replace any file from the installation with an individual one, your replacement will be killed by an update. This is one reason, you should use /usr/local for applications you built on your own, and for the same reason you should use a different name for a kernel you built on your own. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2517 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de