Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

["ne..." <guhvies@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 15:28, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
{snip]
> 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.
I think you are missing the point. The point is that by removing a known working
kernel and installing a kernel that does not work on the user's system
leaves the
user in a bind. It is much better to have multiple kernels installed
as that insures
that the user will have one that works. This is one reason why I never
user yast or
zypper to do kernel upgrades. I use rpm -i and then when I know the
newly installed
kernel works to my satisfaction, I can rpm -e to remove the old
kernel.  I hope this
helps clarify the situation.

ne...
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