Keeping multiple kernels

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 16:31, Pawel A. Gajda wrote:
> > Using yum, the "installonlypkgs" variable takes care of all this for me.
> > With that variable set to "kernel*", I just do a "yum update" (which I
> > think corresponds to "poldek --upgrade-dist"), and it will automatically
> > see the new kernels, present them to me with any other packages that
> > need to be updated, and then install them like all the other packages ...
> > except that the old kernels don't get removed due to the
> > "installonlypkgs" variable.
>
> I see. There is no such automation in poldek (yet maybe), hold= prevents
> packages to be upgraded only, held packages are just skipped during
> --upgrade-dist.
this installonlypkgs could be very useful in poldek. this way perhaps is able 
to create packages with same name but different versions, like
php-4.4.1 and php-5.0.5 installed at same time. or mysql-4.1.15 with 
mysql-libs-5.0.15

-- 
glen