Re: YUM

From: AG (atenor_at_email.com)
Date: 05/28/04


Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:02:42 -0500


"Equis" <nospamrhys@dezigner.com.au> wrote in message
news:40b467db$0$2301$61ce578d@news.syd.swiftdsl.com.au...
> Hello,
>
> I have FC2 and am learning how to use yum.
>
> does "yum update" do the kernal by default?
> Should I do the kernal?
> Is it safe to just do a yum update weekly on a mission critical server
> or can something go wrong (did a mandrakeupdate once and it never booted
> again)... thus the reason I changed to RH :-)
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Rhys

It's always done the kernel for me. My testing box has several different
ones that I keep around to test software on.
AG



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