seth vidal (skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu) said:
the biggest problem to work around has todo with kernel updates and
openafs version updates.
the openafs kernel modules are built to a specific kernel version and
therefore must be install-only -not hard.
Current up2date will do the install-not-upgrade dance for any
package that 'Provides: kernel-modules' - I'm guessing similar
capabilities could be added to apt and yum fairly quickly, and
such packages ported to provide that...
Bill