[TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm

[John Berninger]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:

> According to most documentation, kernel packages should be installed
> using -rpm -ivh;
> however, there are multiple packages starting with kernel that up2date
> obviously uses the rpm -Uhv.
> 
> How do I know which packages should use -i and which should use -U

        The simplest way to remember is that any package that contains a
/boot/vmlinuz-* file (an actual kernel) should *never* be updated with
-U.

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