Automatic update

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:21 +0800, John Summerfied 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.
> 
NTFS is a kernel module.  Even if you compile it yourself, the only
thing needed for the kernel are the kernel and kernel-devel packages.
Kernel source is not needed for that (unless you compile it into the
kernel).

> 
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