Re: Red Hat: To patch or to upgrade?

From: Phil Barnett (philb@philb.us)
Date: 04/09/03

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    From: Phil Barnett <philb@philb.us>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:05:26 -0400

    On Friday 04 April 2003 4:22 pm, Augis wrote:

    > Strange. I had no trouble after updating kernel via rpm (well, not
    > up2date) on RH 7.0-7.3 boxes.
    > It changes grub.conf accordingly and everything i need to do is
    > reboot afterwards.

    I have done kernel updates on my RH 7.3 box several times.

    up2date --force kernel

    All it does it download the kernel and install it with

    rpm -Uvh kernel-whatever.

    Just like on the command line. Nothing special. 

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