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| Please note that you must have already upgraded the kernel as described above, or ''rpm -F'' will result in your old kernel package getting removed (upgraded to the new one), which will break your existing bootloader setup and also leave you with no fallback kernel (having a fallback kernel is desirable in case the new kernel would fail to boot up). When upgrading a system inside an OpenVZ container, this does not matter (there's no real kernel package installed on the in-container system anyway). | Please note that you must have already upgraded the kernel as described above, or ''rpm -F'' will result in your old kernel package getting removed (upgraded to the new one), which will break your existing bootloader setup and also leave you with no fallback kernel (having a fallback kernel is desirable in case the new kernel would fail to boot up). When upgrading a system inside an OpenVZ container, this does not matter (there's no real kernel package installed on the in-container system anyway). | ||
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| + | ===== Alternative: upgrade via CVS, build from source ===== | ||
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| + | Although not recommended for most users, it is also possible to retrieve the Owl ''native'' tree from Openwall's anoncvs server and/or to build the RPM packages from source. This is illustrated on its [[cvs|separate wiki page]], and the relevant documentation may be found in [[http://www.openwall.com/Owl/DOWNLOAD.shtml|Owl/doc/DOWNLOAD]] and [[http://www.openwall.com/Owl/BUILD.shtml|Owl/doc/BUILD]]. | ||
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