19 Oct
2001
19 Oct
'01
2:58 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, S. Krishnan wrote:
Why leave the entry in the rpm db? I assume you are downloading the kernel as a tarball. In that case, would not the rpm entry break things w.r.t. versions etc? Is it because the up2date command will
if you don't leave the entry, then you won't be able to upgrade glibc, modutils or binutils. You may have to upgrade the database entry to 2.4.3 however, because some utils (util-linux for one) require that. Most are happy with simply 2.4
up2date will not touch the kernel unless you tell it to:
up2date --justdb --force kernel kernel-headers
Unfortunately, this will download quite a lot of stuff just to update the db.
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