Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

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

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 16:15, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> ne... wrote:
> > 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.
> I do understand the point. I am arguing how important is to backport it
> for 11.0, and the fact that I don't think an official kernel update has
> much chance of not working on the machine if the previous one did.
I guess that would depend on when the EOL of oS11 is. I can tell you
that I am running 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae on my oS11 box as 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae
did not work for me. I have yet to test the latest kernel available. It would
depend on how hard the backport is. If it is relatively simple, then I guess
it could be done. If it isn't, then I guess it would be easy to settle the
matter by letting users know that difficulty of the backport precludes this.

ne...
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