Fedora Core 3 Update: mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 29, 2005, Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com> wrote:

> On Friday 29 July 2005 17:14, Dave Jones wrote:
>> I thought up2date special cased the kernel so that it always
>> installs rather than updates ?
>> 
>> Though, it's been quite a while since I've used it too..

> If so, then disregard what I said as I'm just out-of-date.  At one 
> time ( when I was last using it ) you had to be careful or you'd 
> loose the old kernels.

It's configurable.  If you have kernel* listed as install-only (the
default), then it will install even if you ask for an update.  If you
change that such that kernel packages no longer match, then you'll get
them updated.

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