[TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm

[Brian Henning]

Why is that?  Does that mean it's bad to let up2date update the kernel?

~Brian

John Berninger wrote:
> 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.
>