Automatic update

[Mike McCarty]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:40 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 05:21 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
>>
>>>Anthony Messina wrote:
>>>
>>>-pmr
>>>
>>>>yum has a service for nightly update in fc4 (and maybe others). why 
>>>>don't you edit the associated scripts to only download the packages, not 
>>>>install them?  that would be the identical behavior that ms allows, or 
>>>>you could choose to have them automatically applied by just enabling the 
>>>>current service.  as another writer mentioned, you kernel is never 
>>>>updated per se.  the new one is just installed and /etc/grub.conf is 
>>>>changed to boot into the new one, but your old kernel stays safe and sound.
>>>
>>>Making the new one bootable is certain to create a system that will not 
>>>boot, shutdown or fail in some other way without manual intervention. It 
>>>happened several times during the life of FC3 to my certain knowledge, I 
>>>believe it happened to many with FC4 and it almost certainly will happen 
>>>during the life of FC5.
>>>
>>>Installing new kernels is fine. Automatically making them bootable is 
>>>not, and that's not taking into account those who wish to boot something 
>>>altogether different, such as Windows, FreeBSD or Another Distro.
>>>
>>>New kernels will mostly work for most; many had problems with FC3 
>>>kernels and USB. New hardware (mobos, SCSI, yoy name it) is likely to 
>>>give grief. People who must build their own wireless or infernal modem 
>>>drivers are adversely affected. I rebuild to include NTFS so I need the 
>>>source, not the binaries while others download the NTFS binaries.
>>>
>>
>>NTFS is a kernel module.  Even if you compile it yourself, the only
>>thing needed for the kernel are the kernel and kernel-devel packages.
>>Kernel source is not needed for that (unless you compile it into the
>>kernel).
> 
> ----
> completely ignoring the fact that there are much easier ways to do
> this...
> 
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs

Doesn't work on my machine.

# yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 Legacy utilities
Server: Fedora Core 2 Legacy updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.10-1.771_FC2
No actions to take

Though it probably does for FC4, which is the OP's question.

Mike
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