On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:11:40PM +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
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.
I did compile my own kernels on Slackware because (especially recently) my hardware was ahead of where the available Slackware kernels were.
However I was really aiming for a 'simpler life' and compiling kernels is one of the things I'd prefer not to do really.
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?
Hmmm! "yum provides kernel" certainly returns the kernels I have on my system, plus a few which it offers from 'fedora' and 'updates'.