-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:14:56 +0200, Sebastian Bauer (ml) wrote: > last days I updated my system with up2date dor the first time. As > default, kernel packages are not installed. Should I do it with > up2date, or is there any good reason, why as default these packages are > not checked? Note that up2date doesn't touch currently installed kernel packages. It installs the new kernel as space permits and doesn't remove the installed ones. So you could go back to the previous kernel(s) easily. There are reasons why a user wouldn't want up2date to perform an automatic kernel upgrade. The kernel is the most important core component. Kernel installation makes the new kernel the default in the bootloader menu. An automatic upgrade followed by a power failure and reboot would boot the latest kernel. If it fails and the machine doesn't boot, that's bad with remote administered machines, for instance. Some users need to compile additional drivers for their kernel manually. It's better they must tell up2date explicitly when to upgrade the kernel. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9PPC0iMVcrivHFQRAgsJAJ4wred5FJbZP1Z25mTsBiKgyGEuFQCaA4C9 /mo8q6ck2wmPo3SPNaKV/+U= =V13O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
