[Arm-dev] Thanks for the new armv7hl kernel

Fri Jun 16 21:19:30 UTC 2017
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 06/16/2017 05:11 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> 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)

Thanks.  Now how did I miss that...  Probably did not go back and reread 
once 1611 came out.

Now I will have to test this and see about updating my howto accordingly.