Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/2/4 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>:
> Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> > I complained about that in a bug against 10.3, after an update broke
> > my system making it unbootable due to lack of sanity checking.  You
> > can install a kernel, with rpm off a live CD using chroot option, and
> > then avoid having YaST notice it, presumably the same thing would
> > likely happen with zypper, as the update likes to use a delta rpm, so
> > it zaps latest version rather than your fallback.
>
> Guys, if you are changing kernels, you have the option to install more
> than one. The bug is addressed. Just add kernel-default to multiversion.
>
> The discussion was about why is not fixed as backport to 11.0, which is
> not the current release.

The point is, you can work round this issue fairly easily, without
need of a destabilising backport of 11.1 features.

Saying kernel updates are unlikely to break your box, is not going to
silence demand for the feature.  Explaining how it is possible to get
same effect without the feature is.
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