Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 22 10:53:18 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 08:46 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Found some time to implement something that has been desired for a
> while: now when you install a kernel RPM on the XO, it will
> additionally auto-install to the boot partition, so now you can just
> install a new kernel RPM with rpm/yum and reboot and expect it to be
> used, no additional steps needed.
> 
> The root of this strange behaviour (installing kernels twice) is due
> to the design of the update system, there might be room to improve on
> this in future as well, but at least this detail will now be less
> annoying to developers.

+1

Thank you,

Jerry




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