RE: Red Hat: To patch or to upgrade?

Actually, when manually upgrading a kernel with rpm, you should always use "rpm -i" (install), instead of "rpm -U" (upgrade). Using the -i flag will install the new kernel along side the existing one, which is what up2date does. If there are stability issues with the new kernel, it's easy to revert back to the previous one by editing you bootloader config files. Once you've verified that the new kernel is working properly, you can uninstall the old version by doing the standard "rpm -e kernel-old-version".

--justin

grep -i "meaning of life" /dev/random

>I have done kernel updates on my RH 7.3 box several times.
Received on Mon Apr 14 16:37:00 2003