[Arm-dev] Thanks for the new armv7hl kernel

Fabian Arrotin arrfab at centos.org
Fri Jun 16 21:11:45 UTC 2017


On 16/06/17 22:02, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/15/2017 10:06 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 15/06/17 14:58, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Anything to note about the new kernelll?
>>>
>> Nothing special (and not Critical CVE either that I could see in that
>> LTS branch), but as Johnny built a newer one for AltArch/i686 I decided
>> to also rebase to latest from kernel LTS branch
>>
>>> Trivial question, why is it 4.9.30-203 and not 4.9.30-204, replacing
>>> 4.9.13-203?
>> The important bit is 4.9.30 vs 4.9.13 (the rest is for rpm versioning)
>>
>>> Also how do people claim to have the linux box up for 6 mo or more when
>>> kernel updates come out more frequently than that?  Not that I mind
>>> having to install a new kernel...
>> It's up to each admin to decide if they want to reboot on newer kernel
>> or not :-)
> 
> Why does /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf not get updated when a new kernel
> is installed?
> 
> I probably should learn on how to create a menu, as all I do is a simple
> sed command to replace the old kernel with the new since there is no
> menuing control? in a kernel update.
> 

Reason why the update-boot tool exists and is mentioned for quite some
time on the dedicated wiki page
(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32?highlight=%28arm32%29#head-abe59e79c4794862a53246e90f3148f1e607f142)

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
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