Manual or Slackpkg Kernel Upgrade?
by vtel57 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MF08)
I'm just curious here...
I've been running Slackware for nearly 20 years as my primary OS. During that time I've almost always used the generic kernels w/ initrd, and manually perform kernel upgrades.
In my most recent installation of Slackware64 - 14.2, I decided to just stick with the default huge kernel. I've gotten lazy, plus I really don't have anything going on these days that requires the initrd method of booting.
So, a kernel upgrade notice just came up today, and I decided to let Slackpkg do the upgrade for me (again, laziness). All went fine and dandy, of course. However, I've always noticed that little comment in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist that says,
Code:# Automated upgrade of kernel packages aren't a good idea (and you need to
# run "lilo" after upgrade). If you think the same, uncomment the lines
# below So, that all being said... how do you folks upgrade your kernels? Automation or manually?
Thanks in advance for your input. :)
~Eric
I've been running Slackware for nearly 20 years as my primary OS. During that time I've almost always used the generic kernels w/ initrd, and manually perform kernel upgrades.
In my most recent installation of Slackware64 - 14.2, I decided to just stick with the default huge kernel. I've gotten lazy, plus I really don't have anything going on these days that requires the initrd method of booting.
So, a kernel upgrade notice just came up today, and I decided to let Slackpkg do the upgrade for me (again, laziness). All went fine and dandy, of course. However, I've always noticed that little comment in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist that says,
Code:# Automated upgrade of kernel packages aren't a good idea (and you need to
# run "lilo" after upgrade). If you think the same, uncomment the lines
# below So, that all being said... how do you folks upgrade your kernels? Automation or manually?
Thanks in advance for your input. :)
~Eric