deactivate up2date

mkkcbe · External Since: May 07, 2007 Posts: 1

How do I deactivate up2date in Rhel 4 ? The reason I want to do this
is, I have openafs installed on this machine and I don't want to
manually install openafs-kmdl everytime when up2date updates my
kernel. If you have a workaround, please do let me know.

Thanks.

Matt Giwer · External Since: May 23, 2006 Posts: 295

mkkcbe RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> How do I deactivate up2date in Rhel 4 ? The reason I want to do this
> is, I have openafs installed on this machine and I don't want to
> manually install openafs-kmdl everytime when up2date updates my
> kernel. If you have a workaround, please do let me know.

I don't know about that release but the least elegant way to stop anything is
to find the file and

chmod -x up2date

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Jan Gerrit Kootstra · External Since: Apr 08, 2004 Posts: 290

mkkcbe.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> How do I deactivate up2date in Rhel 4 ? The reason I want to do this
> is, I have openafs installed on this machine and I don't want to
> manually install openafs-kmdl everytime when up2date updates my
> kernel. If you have a workaround, please do let me know.
>
> Thanks.
>
Mkkcbe,

Do you want to deactivate up2date or do you want up2date to stop
updating your kernel?

If you do not want up2date to update the kernel:

up2date --configure and add to kernel to the list of package not to update

otherwise

rpm -e up2date-gnome up2date

WARNING: This rpm -e thing may need to destroy some dependencies (I
cannot check this, because I run RHEL 5 at home).

Best regards,

Jan Gerrit Kootstra