Mike Hearn wrote: >This solves the following problem: > >Bill sets up a Linux system for Sally. She does a "yum upgrade" because >she knows it's important to stay up to date to be secure. The kernel is >changed, and as a result various things break even though the update was >fixing a race condition in a syscall implementation. She does not >know how to fix it. > > > Why not use tiggers in binary kernel mod rpm's to at least attempt to get a more an up-to-date version? That way whenever the kernel changes the dependant rpm's would attempt to install the latest version of the modules. Though I admit that maybe it's time for a more intuitive boot process so that users faced with a horribly messed up system from a kernel upgrade could "Boot from last known good kernel". Cheers, Eric
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