kalinix wrote: >> What exactly is ksplice meant to do? >> I yum-installed it today, >> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel. >> I expected this to start running, but it didn't. >> Admittedly I didn't read any instructions. > ksplice and yum update are two entirely different things. Let's say you > are running kernel 2.6.33.6-147: yum update downloads and install the > latest kernel release of your vendor of choice (e.g. Fedora's kernel > 2.6.33.8-149) from your vendor's repository; ksplice update downloads > only deltas between 2.6.33.6-147 and 2.6.33.8-149, compiled as modules, > and apply them on the current running kernel. The deltas are downloaded > from ksplice site, therefore are compiled by them. > So if you ran yum update you just downloaded and installed the latest > Fedora kernel, which needs reboot. I yum-installed ksplice under Fedora-13. I don't seem to have any application called "ksplice", so how do I run "ksplice update" as you suggest? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
