Ken Teh wrote:
...snip...
> widescreen up.  The downside of loading an nvidia driver is that you 
> have to reinstall it after a kernel upgrade which happens if automatic 
> updates are enabled.  You could exclude kernel upgrades (might be the 
> default) but that's probably not a good idea.
> 
...snip...

Hi,
This is slightly off topic, but I just wanted to clear something up 
since it was part of this thread..

By default the kernel does *not* get upgraded automatically.  Since the 
kernel is the only package that has to have a machine reboot for the 
upgrade to actually take effect, we do not update it automatically.  It 
has to be done by hand doing a 'yum update' or 'yum update kernel\*'

We also do not update packages that depend on kernel versions, such as 
GFS, or openafs.

The list of items excluded on the nightly cron job is at 
/etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes
Feel free to add to that if you have other packages you do not want 
updated automatically.
This list does *not* affect people doing yum activities by hand, or 
yumex.  It only affects the nightly yum cron job.

I don't think this is documented good enough.  I can certainly put up a 
web page.  I was thinking of putting it someplace like
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/yum

Troy
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