Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

Martin Abente martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 12:03:31 EDT 2013


Great! :D

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> 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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> > =---------------------
> >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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