[TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm

[Blackburn, Marvin]

No, I was just in the position where a I needed something other than the
latest kernel.
I had the rpm's that I needed and was trying to figure out the "correct"
way of doing it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Henning
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 4:46 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm
> 
> 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.
> > 
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