Continued kernel updates for F14?

[stan]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:21:12 -0500
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:

> > Do you know if a  yum clean meta  would clean up the cache
> > corruption after doing this?
> 
> It appears to store the information separately. I haven't had any
> problems using this. I don't think you need to do anything afterwards.
> 
> 
> > Does this mean it is possible to update a non-running system by
> > using releasever and installroot? e.g. update F14 from F15
> > yum -y update --releasever=14 --installdir=<path to F14 root>
> 
> I would think so but have never tried that. I usually do the 'chroot
> /mtn/sysimage' method.After that I would think it would properly
> detect the release of the chroot regardless of the rescue system you
> booted.

Thank you Richard (and Joe) for your responses.  It seems that the
chroot method is the way to go.