On Saturday 21 June 2003 19:09, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > 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. > > Seems I recollect I had the option when I configured Up2Date on this machine to include kernels, but the default and recommended setting was to leave them out. The reasons for this make perfect sense. I don't have any custom stuff on my machine so I always install the kernel updates, and I've had no problems so far. Your mileage may vary of course. Joebewan
