On Wednesday 19 November 2008 17:01:21 Putrycz, Erik wrote:
No, because libzypp will not care for the number of the kernels
installed
in parallel - in the end, you will run out of space or hit other limits.
Ideally, it would be nice for a kernel update to keep the previous version and ask the user after reboot to remove the previous version. It usually doesn't require very much to see if network and storage are working.
The problem is to define 'working'. Also, some apps are influenced by kernel and do not work with the new one. How to identify those? etc...
I don't think it makes any sense to add any logic into handling number
of
kernels, because no software can automatically detect that it can
remove
kernel X - only user can.
Agreed, it should be up to the user to decide that. However, a little logic to ease this would be nice. A repair or rollback after a buggy update (I've seen network or storage controllers failing in some kernel versions) can be quite time consuming.
Maybe some help could be done in the software management YaST module. Any idea welcome! Stano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org