[olug] SuSe Annoyance or Feature?

Terry td3201 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 15:03:06 UTC 2004


I believe it is a Feature.  You can try manually downloading and
installing the RPM with rpm -ivh kernel-default*.rpm.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:52:43 -0600 (CST), Jon H. Larsen
<relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to change the kernel upgrade procedure so you can keep
> the existing and upgrade kernel on a Suse system at the same time?
> 
> When you run yast(you) to do the update, the procedure erases the
> '/lib/modules/2.x.x.x' directory of the running kernel - thereby
> inevitably having to restart the system on the new kernel right away, as
> the modules for the existing (read as 'running') kernel are gone.
> 
> This makes for longer late-evening updates.
> 
> There has to be a file somewhere that controls the upgrade procedure.
> 
> Jon L.
> 
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