Fedora Core 3 Update: mkinitrd-4.1.18.1-1
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Aug 8 16:39:04 UTC 2005
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 If so, then disregard what I said as I'm just out-of-date.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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