yum losing it´s flavour?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 18:24:54 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:17, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sunday September 24 2006 1:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I don't use the proprietary drivers, but I did once have them installed, a
> > couple of years ago. IIRC they have to be compiled against the running
> > kernel, so updating your kernel means re-compiling the nvidia drivers. I'm
> > sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I use the proprietary drivers from Livna on most of my machines. The release
> of updated modules lags by a few hours to days, the release of a new kernel.
> The good news is that of late, you don't have to manually locate the new
> modules and install them - when they get released yum picks them up in the
> regular update process.
Can yum automatically defer updating the kernel until the
in-use modules are also available in matching versions?
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Les Mikesell
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