-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Cada wrote: ...
A further question though. Can running YOU step on already installed programs that have been modified to meet the SLICK requirements? I guess I am wondering if the kernel can be inadvertently upgraded, loosing the CK patches?
Yes, definately.
YOU, YaST2, smart, y2pmsh, apt-rpm, yum only look for package names and version numbers. They don't
care where the package "comes from".
If your SLICK kernel package is called kernel-default-2.6.13-15.ck and Novell puts up a newer kernel
version (e.g. kernel-default-2.6.13.1-... or kernel-default-2.6.14-...) or a newer kernel package
release (e.g. kernel-default-2.6.13-16), then it will be upgraded ("stepped on", as you wrote).
But that's not necessarely a bad thing, as you get the security or bug fixes, which is much more
important than the 5% of performance you gain from the few additional CK patches in the SLICK kernel
(the SUSE Linux kernel already has around 80% of the CK patches included anyway).
And as soon as someone from the SLICK team puts up an updated SLICK kernel (e.g.
kernel-default-2.6.13.1-92 for SUSE Linux => kernel-default-2.6.13-92.slick for SLICK) that includes
the fixes from Novell's package, it will be updated again (but using YaST2/smart/yum/apt instead of
YOU).
cheers
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