[mythtv-users] Simple kernel upgrade question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 17:20, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 07:52:30PM -0500, Michael Haan wrote:
> > > > > > > I want to get the 2.6.15 kernel so I can try to use my
> > > > > > > DVICO Fusion 5 Lite with QAM.  I've done kernel upgrades
> > > > > > > before, but never using yum with FC4.
> > >
> > > You need to enable the development repo. Can be done via a config
> > > file change (in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo), but not
> > > recommended. I'd use:
> > >
> > > # yum --enablerepo=development install kernel
> > >
> > > That only enables the development repo for that calling of yum.
>
> you don't need to go that far for 2.6.15. It has already been packaged
> up for FC4 in updates-testing some weeks ago, e.g.
>
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/redhat/RPMS.updates-testing/kernel-2.6.15-1.1
>824_FC4.i686.rpm
>
> It's better to use that kernel than rawhide's.

D'oh. Good call. So (I know Axel hates yum, but... ;) try this instead:

# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install kernel

> > > Note that Axel isn't packaging up kernel modules for every single
> > > development kernel though, since there's typically at least one
> > > new kernel per day, but he is starting to roll packages for what
> > > will be FC5.
>
> Correct. I did add an updates-testing kernel to FC4's buildsystem, but
> 2.6.15 breaks a lot of stuff, so I removed it and focus on FC5 and
> getting the kmlds built for it. It looks quite OK for now, and FC4
> might get the 2.6.15 kernel sooner than FC5 will get released. Let's
> see.

Its a race!

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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