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Re: 2.0.36-1 kernel upgrade question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Canary)
Wed Nov 25 04:19:37 1998

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:19:57 -0600
From: Robert Canary <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net>
Reply-To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Hi,

Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
> 
> why not just use
> 
> rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm
> 
> to upgrade the kernel source and headers file? no need to leave the old
> source and headers around. After all, you still have to recompile the
> kernel if you install the source and headers, don't you?
> 
> I think "rpm -ivh" is suggested for the kernel-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm and
> kernel-modules-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm.
> 
> Jyan-Min Fang
> 

Oh no,  Please do not suggest that.  Kernel rpms should also completely
overwrite the old one.

--
robert


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