avoiding new kernel hijacks

[Sean McMahon]

I've never had my debian kernel with speakup get replaced by a non-speakup
kernel. That is good fyi however.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: avoiding new kernel hijacks


> Line 3 of /etc/system-config/kernel has a yes in it that makes kernel
> hijacks possible, change that to no and you prevent speakup kernel from
> being replaced as default in future.  The 0 entry is the default kernel in
> menu.list or grub.conf and it's what will be used to boot without user
> intervention.  At least in fc3, you could also include exclude=kernel* in
> /etc/yum.conf to prevent kernel updates from being installed too.  I'm
> sure debian can do this too but haven't researched that so won't write out
> of turn.  Anyone running fc3 really should visit http://www.fedoranews.com
> and have a look at the faq file on repositories.  The reason it's called
> fedora core in the first place is other packages useable are being
> archived on other repositories and can be downloaded if you get the right
> contents in a /etc/yum.conf file.  That site has a yum.conf file available
> for download that includes lots more repositories.
>
>
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