Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Use autoyast for upgrade ?

OK, thank you!
On 22.10.18 18:17, Mike Marion wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:14:45PM +0200, Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch wrote:
> 
>> is there a way to freeze the kernel at the upgrade
>> prozess ?
>> If updates are provided allways the latest patch level will be
>> installed. We need a dedicated kernel. Can I pass this
>> information, too ?
> 
> Manage your own repos and don't put newer kernels than the one you want
> into said repo.
> 
> We do this, more or less.  We manage our own repos because we need
> consistency between hosts, and we need to be able to test that updates
> don't break things (we just had a tools break on a kernel update in the
> last weeks).  Then we periodically (usually as needed for bugfixes or
> security patches) sync updates from our SMT repos into the repos our hosts
> use, then have hosts patch up on reboot.  The idea being that a newly jumped
> host and a rebooted host will have the same installed rpms/version.
> 


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