Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

Anish Mangal anish at sugarlabs.org
Fri Mar 22 11:09:31 EDT 2013


awesome!

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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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