[ALUG] How do people here manage updates (or not)?

[Dan Hatton]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Chris G wrote:

> One area that worries me slightly is what seems to be the 'normal' way
> of keeping it up to date which is to run 'yum update all' (or an
> equivalent) automatically at regular intervals.

> For me one of the major disadvantages of this approach is that when the
> kernel gets updated (which is quite frequently) I have to recompile
> both my Nvidia display drivers and Vmware.  The Vmware recompile can
> be a bit difficult as Vmware is only guaranteed to build against certain
> kernel versions and you often have to use third-party patches to get
> it to compile with more recent kernels.

Have you considered dispensing with Fedora stock kernels, and
compiling your own?  That way, you'd control the frequency of kernel
upgrades.

Which brings me neatly on to a problem of my own.  The above worked
for me until a few days ago, when the process of upgrading from FC6 to
Fedora 7 automagically installed a stock kernel.  No package will
admit responsibility for the kernel image in question via "yum
provides."  Anyone have any ideas what package I need to remove to get
rid of said kernel image, please?

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Regards,

Dan