[Oracleasm-users] When will updated rpms for the last SLES9 kernel update 2.6.5-7.252 will be released?

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:27:19PM +0200, Michael Daskalov wrote:
> When will updated rpms for the last SLES9 kernel update will be
> released?

	Wow, Michael, I didn't see this message so long ago, and I'm
sorry I never responded.  Obviously, the packages have been updated for
a long time.

> Can you advice me about the procedure of upgrading the kernel when such
> an 'unsupported by Novell' module is loaded in the system?
> 
> Last time I did :
> -----------
> rpm -e oracleasm*
> upgrade from SP2 to SP3 (using Yast)
> rpm -ivh oracleasm*version_for_the_new_kernel

	That will work fine.  However, you certainly do not need to
remove the oracleasmlib and oracleasm-support packages.  Also, if you
are just installing a new kernel, you can even leave the old kernel and
oracleasm driver installed.
	

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