[PlanetCCRMA] new kernels for fc4/fc5

Nigel Henry cave.dnb@tiscali.fr
Thu Jul 27 14:14:01 2006


On Thursday 27 July 2006 22:56, Bert Visser wrote:
> >> I tried it this morning and the strange thing was that it didn't work
> >> when using Yumex (the same error about the kernel being older than the
> >> installed one) but it did work from the command line.
> >>
> >> BTW, it installed the 2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt kernel. Is this correct, I
> >> mean is this the latest one?
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >> Bert
> >
> > Yes. Thats the correct kernel.  I've just checked Fernando's previous
> > post. I must say I'm not too impressed with Yumex compared to Synaptic,
> > the GUI for Apt.  Synaptic is pretty much tied in with Apt, but Yumex
> > seems to work a bit independant of Yum, which probably explains why you
> > were still getting problems with it.
> >
> > Nigel.
>
> Yes, you're quite right; the combination Apt/Synaptic worked muched
> better together than Yum/Yumex.
> Perhaps Smart is a better alternative but I haven't yet been able to add
> the Planet's repositories to it.
>
> BTW, where can I find the kernel-devel package for this kernel?
>
> Greetings,
> Bert

I'm not sure for FC5. When I did the updates for FC4 today (using Apt) the 
kernel-devel package came down as well. Perhaps Fernando will reply on that 
one.

Nigel.