On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 13:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Dear List Members,
Is there a way to prevent a kernel from being upgraded unless a list of given dependencies are satisfied?
What I am getting at is sometimes updated kernels are available before the upgraded versions of the kernel modules in 'extras' are (ie drbd).
If there were a way to list these modules as dependencies that must be satisfied before a kernel upgrade can be performed it would prevent a lot of pain around upgrade management.
Yes : when you have production machine using such modules (sitting in the extras repository, or third-party), i advice you to exclude the kernel (exclude=) in your yum config ... i *always* update manually such things, especially when dealing with sensitive data that needs to be replicated through DRBD ...
My two cents ..