В Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:09:05 +1100 Basil Chupin пишет:

Am I correct in assuming that these files for a kernel should always be downloaded as a 'set' for any version of a kernel? And here I am taking only the kernel-desktop as my example:

1. kernel-desktop

2. kernel-desktop-development

3. kernel-development (from the no-arch repo)

They are called kernel-desktop-devel and kernel-devel ... at least here :) You need -devel if you are going to build external modules for this kernel. And yes, they should match.

4. kernel-firmware (from the no-arch repo)

This is not tied to specific kernel version, although drivers in newer kernel may require newer firmware. Having latest version should not harm.

Reasons for my question are:

* I use the ...Kernel:/stable/standard repo for my kernels and using this I updated my kernel to 3.12.0-1 this morning but this did not update the file kernel-firmware even though a later version is showing in YaST;

You need to allow vendor switch. Not sure how to do it with yast. Using zypper with explicit version will do it.

* Patrick mentioned that Tumbleweed is using kernel 3.12.0-34.2 - which I just downloaded. But before installing it I wanted to make sure that I need all of the 4 files I mention above so as not to zonk my 13.1 RC2.

Thanks for advice.

BC

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On 09/11/13 17:09, Basil Chupin wrote:

Am I correct in assuming that these files for a kernel should always be downloaded as a 'set' for any version of a kernel? And here I am taking only the kernel-desktop as my example:

1. kernel-desktop

2. kernel-desktop-development

3. kernel-development (from the no-arch repo)

4. kernel-firmware (from the no-arch repo)

Reasons for my question are:

* I use the ...Kernel:/stable/standard repo for my kernels and using this I updated my kernel to 3.12.0-1 this morning but this did not update the file kernel-firmware even though a later version is showing in YaST;

* Patrick mentioned that Tumbleweed is using kernel 3.12.0-34.2 - which I just downloaded. But before installing it I wanted to make sure that I need all of the 4 files I mention above so as not to zonk my 13.1 RC2.

Thanks for advice.

BC

Apart from the above 4 files there has to be another one to do with modules tools or something - but I cannot put my finger on it. I tried to apply the 3.12.0-34 kernel which Patrick mentioned to my "outdated" oS 12.2 installation and during the install there was a dependency error to do with modules tools. I ignored it and went ahead with the install and now 12.2 won't boot. Does anyone know what this 'modules tools' rpm is, please? [While on this subject, does mkinitrd also have to match the version of the kernel being installed?] BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org