Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:02:34PM +0100, Clayton wrote:
[ 8< ]
> I wonder, could this be made easier (for newer users) than having to
> edit the conf file?  Could it be set to keep 1 or 2 kernel versions by
> default?

See my recent reply to Carlos mail.  Keeping one additional kernel to
the running one sounds good and simple to me.

Any handish copy action doesn't work for those users needing this
feature most likely.  This must be simple, stupid, automatic and
reliable.

[ 8< ]
> On the other side of the proverbial coin though... what are the risks
> and problems with having this option enabled by default, or easily
> changed in some way?

The risk I see is a full hard disk.  But rpm first installes the new
files anyhow.  And as there are _no_ file name conflicts between the old
and ne kernel RPM the additional space is required anyhow.

Therefore only keeping every kernel would include the risk to run out of
disk space.

In addition to this default it would be nice to define the number of
kernels kept and the opportunity to disable the feature at all.  The
latter might already be possible by vetoing the kernel-* packages
updates.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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