Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 02 November 2008 07:05:45 Lars Müller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:00:37PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 18:52 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
> > > The open or a different question is how to display this state ot the
> > > opportinities to the user at the grub screen.  Here the help of
> > > usebility experts might be the most promising approach.
> >
> > I believe that simply it adds an entry to the menu with the kernel name
> > and version, probably sorted by age. This is done by a script in the
> > kernel rpm.
>
> This is _currently_ all done with the help of the script hooks
> (preinstall,postinstall,preuninstall,postuninstall) of the kernel RPM.
>
> The question I had in mind was: How to make the install of several
> kernels _useable_.
> [...]

Yum already does all of this, so it is possible. Yum is also configurable as 
to how many versions to keep (defaults to 2). 

Regards,

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