On FLP's kernel updates for RH8

[Jeff Sheltren]

Hi Barbara:

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:37, Barbara Pennacchi wrote:
> Sorry I didn't reply to you regarding using yum/apt on rh8, I was busy  
> enjoying Easter :-) (I'll reply to you on this later, though)
> 
> I have another question which bothers me a bit more than the status of  
> yum/apt on rh8...
> 
> As I said some emails ago, I've downloaded by hand all the new errata  
> concerning my rh8 server, including the kernel upgrade.
> 
> it all went ALMOST well. Only the kernel RPM gave me some problems:
> 
>  - it didn't like the fact that I used LILO instead of grub.
>  - it behaves differently from previous RPM kernel upgrades: where
> I expected to find the older kernel sitting peacefully in /boot/ together  
> with the new release and its tag in lilo.conf moved down to something like  
> "linux.bak", this FLP's RPM somehow managed to wipe off the previous  
> kernel from /boot/ ....and mess up with lilo.conf!!! argh.
The 'linux.bak' tag in lilo.conf is put there by yum, not by the kernel
RPM IIRC.  Since you are now installing by hand and not using yum,
that's why you got the screwy behaviour in the lilo.conf file.  By the
way, since it wiped out the old kernel from boot, it sounds like you
upgraded the kernel RPM instead of installing it.  Usually (always?)
you'll want to install (-i flag in RPM) a kernel package so that you
don't blow away your old kernel.  When using yum this is the default
behaviour...

> I don't know if I have just been plain unlucky (Italians would say  
> "ammazza, aho' che sfiga!"...) or if other people have encountered similar  
> problems with this specific kernel release from FLP.... But I think that  
> maybe next kernel releases from FLP should try to behave like previous  
> RH's kernel updates... (or put a warning about that different  
> behaviour :-)
I believe that the kernel packages do behave exactly as the old RH
kernel updates did (at least as far as I can tell).

> 
> (Never been keen on letting up2date do its work automagically: I've always  
> updated my RH boxes personally -- methinks I'll keep doing that way :-))))
I would definatley lean towards yum for this - it'll make your life much
easier.  Although it sounds from the begining of your message that you
are having problems with yum on RH8...?

-Jeff