Automatic update

[Jeremy Thompson]

On 2/12/06, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> Anthony Messina wrote:
>
> -pmr
> >>
> > yum has a service for nightly update in fc4 (and maybe others). why
> > don't you edit the associated scripts to only download the packages, not
> > install them?  that would be the identical behavior that ms allows, or
> > you could choose to have them automatically applied by just enabling the
> > current service.  as another writer mentioned, you kernel is never
> > updated per se.  the new one is just installed and /etc/grub.conf is
> > changed to boot into the new one, but your old kernel stays safe and
> sound.
>
> Making the new one bootable is certain to create a system that will not
> boot, shutdown or fail in some other way without manual intervention. It
> happened several times during the life of FC3 to my certain knowledge, I
> believe it happened to many with FC4 and it almost certainly will happen
> during the life of FC5.
>
> Installing new kernels is fine. Automatically making them bootable is
> not, and that's not taking into account those who wish to boot something
> altogether different, such as Windows, FreeBSD or Another Distro.
>
> New kernels will mostly work for most; many had problems with FC3
> kernels and USB. New hardware (mobos, SCSI, yoy name it) is likely to
> give grief. People who must build their own wireless or infernal modem
> drivers are adversely affected. I rebuild to include NTFS so I need the
> source, not the binaries while others download the NTFS binaries.




<newb>

I thought the NTFS drivers were included in the kernel now.  Why would you
roll your own?

</newb>

 Thnx,

JT

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