On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:06:54AM -0800, rds wrote: > --- Andreas RiRippla.riripplmgmxet> wrote: > > But, I for one prefer _not_ to upgrade my kernel packages automatically, > > so I install the next version whenever I choose to. Which more and more > > makes sense to me, as the newest 2.6 kernels seem to have some stability > > issues at the moment, so I am happily running 2.6.7-1-686-smsmp. > > That's a good point. But wouldn't you want to be "advised" that you need to > install a new kernel in case if, say, there is a security exploit in the "old" > kernel? That was the reasoning behind my desire to auto upgrade kernel. > True, however I am also lazy(tm). I tend to do kernel upgrades every three or four releases, because I also have to track some self-compiled kernel modules. As I am behind a modem that is on rarely, I guess I can take the risk of running a little bit outdated. Also, as mentioned above, it seems that the kernel developers chose to work on improving the kernel in the 2.6 branch instead of forking a 2.7 as would have been the case normally. That is not to say that it might not make sense for others to go for the automatic update. IIRC, you have some questions to answer when an upgrade is due (for initrd and for lilo), so you would have some control over wether you want to go ahead with a new version. Every one needs to find the balance between new functionality, stability and security concerns, I guess... -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379
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