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Re: linux [8.4.2]: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 9 11:29:03 2000
Message-Id: <200006091528.LAA22873@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 02:48:24 EDT."
<200006090648.CAA00791@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 11:28:55 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I updated my linux box from 8.4.1 to 8.4.2 it re-upgraded my kernel
> (which you'll recall I backed out so my machine would boot off of
> its scsi disk) despite the fact that there was no kernel upgrade
> going from 8.4.1 to 8.4.2. Interestingly, it didn't re-add several
> rpms that I manually removed after undating to 8.4.1.
This is consistent with our update policy for private machines, but
perhaps indicates that we have a bad policy.
