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Re: non-debian kernels -- bizzar?



On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 11:19:08AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hamish> called previous. Any chance that upon removing a
> Hamish> kernel-package generated kernel package, things could be
> Hamish> changed back? Since no history is available except the
> Hamish> previous I would assume that would mean both the current and
> Hamish> previous (/vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old) would now point to the
> Hamish> previous version.
> 
> 	Hmm. This may not be fully possible (I mean, I don't know what
>  to link to /vmlinuz.old). Take the following seqence of events as an
>  example. 
> 
>                          vmlinuz        vmlinuz.old
> Delete  2.0.28		 2.0.29		?????? (2.0.26?)

Indeed as I said, since history is not available this is difficult.
I can only suggest that both vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old go to 2.0.29;
this is better than leaving it hanging, which I think is what happens now 
(and breaks LILO).


hamish
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