On 08/08/2021 01.41, -pj wrote:
On 8/7/21 3:05 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
-pj composed on 2021-08-07 02:37 (UTC-0500):
How can zypper be used to unlock a version string or a package? YaST seems to only allow locking of packages with what are contained in the installed repos, in my case the "tiwai 5.11.xx kernel" repo's packages are able to be locked and unlocked using YaST.
Is there a konsole command to list all locked packages on the machine?
Of course: "zypper ll". Not the only one: cat /etc/zypp/locks
I believe the purge-kernels service is active by default right?
Yes.
Currently here multiversion.kernels line 554: 1 multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,running
I edited line 554 of /etc/zypp/zypp.conf to the following: > multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,running,5.11.16-1.ge06d321
I powercycled (noted no change in boot menu entries) then reverted to default: > multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,running
AFAIK that change does nothing to the menu, it only affects "purge-kernels".
Would you have any further suggestions or even a potential to keep 4 of the past kernels instead of only 3?
If you have any kernel that works, that one is all you need for normal use. If you expect to ever do any kernel bisection looking for when a bug first appeared, it's convenient not to have deleted older kernels. For most people, there's no point in changing multiversion.kernels. If you're more comfortable keeping more, go ahead and keep more. Another option is to disable purge-kernels.service and delete kernels manually at your pleasure.
I am interested in kernel-sources for 5.13.xx series due to the following, well basically additional documentation:
-----> There was a text file in "/usr/src/linux/Documentation" (if the kernel sources are installed) that described every possible device file in /dev. I can not find it now. Ah! Found it:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt The other important data in /dev is the Major-Minor numbers. <----- Compliments to Carlos E.R.
:-) I seem to recall an rpm named something like kernel-docs :-? [...] Yes! It still exists, I just looked. And an html version. But I have no idea what it contains exactly. Maybe that directory, or that directory processed and copied somewhere else. ... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))