Am Freitag, 15. August 2003 16:13 schrieb Bob Vickers:
Matthias,
You are quite right, YOU ought to be able to install critical patches. The most likely explanation is that YOU was accessing a mirror site that was not quite up-to-date. Does it still happen?
You *is* up to date. I wrote that You in fact was up to date because it showed the kernel-update if you "click on 'include installed patches' (dt: installierte Patches einschließen)". So You knows about the Kernel Update but doesn't show it until you click on "'include installed patches". If you now scroll down you find an entry similar to "kernel optimized for Athlon CPUs". If you then click on it, you see that there is a newer Version ( -100) available.
People are generally rude about YOU because the early versions were very poor. It has improved greatly since then, but has not lost its reputation.
Maybe it is not improved enough? You did always work for me (even the first update-kernel got installed). Only that particular patch made problems. What I think is: You knows that I have got installed the first Kernel-update and because of that doesn't show the package k_athlon anymore. Some days ago a new k_athlon package has been released (2.4.20-100). But You doesn't show it because it thinks, k_athlon has been installed... So you have to find it manually and select update. Matthias