Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

Paul Fox pgf at laptop.org
Fri Mar 22 10:57:02 EDT 2013


wow.  somehow i didn't think this would ever happen.  thank you!!

paul

daniel 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.
 > 
 > Daniel
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