[opensuse-kernel] What is the purpose of kernel-base?
Hi, see $SUBJECT It seems totally useless. I seemed to remember that it was supposed to be used for virtualized guests, but it does not even have virtio included, so that can't be it... Anyone here who can enlighten me? -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org
On 4/14/2011 8:13 AM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Hi,
see $SUBJECT
It seems totally useless. I seemed to remember that it was supposed to be used for virtualized guests, but it does not even have virtio included, so that can't be it...
Anyone here who can enlighten me?
I wouldn't need virtio for LXC container guests. If there were such a package that let me install placeholder "kernel" package without really installing any kernel but just satisfying various other rpm dependencies that there must be a kernel package installed, I'd love that. I don't need any paravirt drivers for disk or net or tty or anything. Up to now I've just been either allowing the kernel to install and just ignoring it, or force removing it and living with the annoyance that some updates try to reinstall it, or force remove and mark the dependent packages/patterns as "ignore and allow this to be broken". Same goes for all grub/bootloader related stuff. Letting it install and ignoring it is a little dangerous because then a guest may try to load a module or write a bootloader. They normally shouldn't be allowed to by the container system but it's easy to misconfigure the container system and it's sort of "dangerous by default" rather than the other way around, so not installing that stuff is safer. I haven't looked at this package and don't know if there is any such package, I'm just saying there's at least one scenario where an essentially empty kernel package would solve problems and be the opposite of useless. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:41:25 -0400
"Brian K. White"
I haven't looked at this package and don't know if there is any such package, I'm just saying there's at least one scenario where an essentially empty kernel package would solve problems and be the opposite of useless.
kernel-*-base isn't empty. It's pretty big and contains e.g. ata drivers and some really obscure usb-storage stuff. But no virtio. Does not really make sense to me ;) Creating an empty dummy-kernel package is pretty trivial, but somehting completely different. -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org
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