Re: Yup update mismatched kernel and modules


Subject: Re: Yup update mismatched kernel and modules
From: Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui@plaidworks.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 14:29:37 MDT


At 4:13 PM -0400 8/23/00, William K. Gibson wrote:
> Are you saying that the vmlinux file on the mac disk (I'm using
>BootX) is the actual kernel that gets loaded?

Yup. I discussed that last week on this list because the update
notice was confusing on this issue (and Dan's said he'll fix that
next time he has to send out a kernel update, to make the notice
clearer)

> I must admit to being a little
>surprised by that- and a little annoyed that yup will install a new kernel
>on the linux partition with no recommendation that the kernel be upgraded on
>the mac side.

It probably wouldn't be a bad thing for yup to put up a "important
thing to note about this update" warning, but I don't know that yup
or the RPM protocols would allow that.

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