Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2009/02/04 16:28 (GMT+0100) Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

> We do often fixes in current version, and mark the bug as fixed in older 
> versions.

> > Since it apparently hasn't been and won't be added to 11.0, I'll just
> > have to remember to keep using Smart instead of Zypper on 11.0 systems,
> > something I failed to remember today. It's annoying to not be able to
> > stick to one package manager. :-(

> I understand your frustration. I can't get convinced though that a 
> backport is worth the priority.

> - Either the system is non critical and you don't change kernels (I mean 
> kernel versions) like end-users do
> - We can reasonable assume a SUSE kernel update will work.
> - If you run a critical system, you would not change the kernel on a the
> production system.

In which category belongs critical system installed to Highpoint RAID that to
boot requires proprietary driver that mkinitrd called from zypper's kernel
installation always leaves out in the absence of manual intervention?

http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/BIOS_Driver/rr232x/Linux/new%20format/openSUSE/rr232x-suse-11.0-i386-v1.9.08.0820.tgz
from http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/China/bios_rr2320c.htm
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