On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 12:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > kalinix wrote: > > >> What exactly is ksplice meant to do? > >> I yum-installed it today, > >> and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel. > >> I expected this to start running, but it didn't. > >> Admittedly I didn't read any instructions. > > > ksplice and yum update are two entirely different things. Let's say you > > are running kernel 2.6.33.6-147: yum update downloads and install the > > latest kernel release of your vendor of choice (e.g. Fedora's kernel > > 2.6.33.8-149) from your vendor's repository; ksplice update downloads > > only deltas between 2.6.33.6-147 and 2.6.33.8-149, compiled as modules, > > and apply them on the current running kernel. The deltas are downloaded > > from ksplice site, therefore are compiled by them. > > So if you ran yum update you just downloaded and installed the latest > > Fedora kernel, which needs reboot. > > I yum-installed ksplice under Fedora-13. > I don't seem to have any application called "ksplice", > so how do I run "ksplice update" as you suggest? > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland >
Actually I wasn't very clear: the update command is 'uptrack-upgrade'. If you want to see the updates you can see them with uptrack-show. If you're using X, you can see the patches with uptrack-manager HTH, -- Calin Key fingerprint = 37B8 0DA5 9B2A 8554 FB2B 4145 5DC1 15DD A3EF E857 ================================================= Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
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