[PlanetCCRMA] installonlyn

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Sep 3 13:30:01 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 04:21 -0700, Tracey Hytry wrote:
> Matt, thanks for researching this and finding a fix.
> The most recent kernel I downloaded wget off of the ccrma site after being bitten by that once before.
> Besides, I'm old school and like "rpm -ivh kernel-something".
> Not to complain about yum too much, but I think that it's a terrible system compared to apt-get.
> Again thanks Matt, maybe I can trust yum/yumex a bit more now?

Maybe not. In my perception it has been inferior to apt, as you say. In
this case an upgrade changes your preferences without warning (by
silently dropping an option you had selected) and you are only
"notified" when all kernels you wanted to keep are to be erased. Bug. 

-- Fernando