On 19/01/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/19/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:02 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > "This update also introduces 'kernel-debug', a variant with > > additional debugging options enabled. These kernels may run > > with lower performance and increased memory overhead than > > the non-debug variants." > > > > My question is: is it possible to get this kernel without this > > kernel-debug option? > > I thought it was an *extra* kernel, that you'd install if you wanted to, > instead. Like you had kernel, kernel-smp, and so on... Ah! OK, thanks, I misunderstood the message, so my next question is , when I update to this kernel, which one will be used by default? the normal one or the kernel-debug version?
They are different packages: $ yum list kernel\* Available Packages kernel.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel.i586 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel-PAE-debug.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel-PAE-debug-devel.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel-debug.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel-debug-devel.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates kernel-devel.i686 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 updates Just install the kernel package - this will be the default update. -- Mark Knoop
