Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

[kalinix]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> kalinix wrote:
> 
> >> What exactly is ksplice meant to do?
> >> I yum-installed it today,
> >> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel.
> >> I expected this to start running, but it didn't.
> >> Admittedly I didn't read any instructions.
> 
> > ksplice and yum update are two entirely different things. Let's say you
> > are running kernel 2.6.33.6-147: yum update downloads and install the
> > latest kernel release of your vendor of choice (e.g. Fedora's kernel
> > 2.6.33.8-149) from your vendor's repository; ksplice update downloads
> > only deltas between 2.6.33.6-147 and 2.6.33.8-149, compiled as modules,
> > and apply them on the current running kernel. The deltas are downloaded
> > from ksplice site, therefore are compiled by them.
> > So if you ran yum update you just downloaded and installed the latest
> > Fedora kernel, which needs reboot.
> 
> I yum-installed ksplice under Fedora-13.
> I don't seem to have any application called "ksplice",
> so how do I run "ksplice update" as you suggest?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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> 

Actually I wasn't very clear: the update command is 'uptrack-upgrade'.
If you want to see the updates you can see them with uptrack-show.


If you're using X, you can see the patches with uptrack-manager


HTH,

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