arch fun.
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 6 15:19:17 UTC 2009
Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said:
> Yes -- all that have kernel.i686 installed now would get the new
> kernel.i686 later (the one with PAE). But the latter will not boot on
> all machines where the curret kernel.i686 works. If there is no
> kernel.i686 (because it is named kernel-PAE.i686), then yum/anaconda
> will automatically install kernel.i586, which is what should happen to
> make sure all system still boot after updating.
>
> But maybe some yum/anaconda plugin/magic could automatically select the
> best kernel on update. Not sure, but something like that might be needed
> for Live-CD-Installs anyway
We could invent a new rpm arch. This may not be practical, though.
Bill
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