On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 09:07, seth vidal wrote: > > > It'd be unsafe to do otherwise. > > > > why? in daemon mode you've got right, but whem I use it manually...? > > it's the same as if you said rpm -Uvh kernel-2* would be unsafe. > > when you use it manually why should the behavior change - think about it > like this - if you update the kernel and replace the old one and the new > one breaks your system you're out of luck, but if you just install the > new one, not updating the old one then you can always select the old one > from grub/lilo. Right. See what RH has to say in their kernel errata notes, eg. the last paragraph of the "Solution" chapter in <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-135.html>. -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
